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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation of A Doctor's Diary is the villainy of Dr. Ludlow...
...degrees of interest shown by the public in their exhibits, the coin machine manufacturers last week foresaw the passing of Bagatelle, increasing popularity for new bowling (Skee-ball), ray shooting and baseball games, games that actually play. Most impressive of these was Inventor Frank Train's robot checker player, a 7-ft., 650-lb. aluminum "Magic Brain'' which has been touring the country as a publicity stunt for Radio Corporation of America, and which will be sold commercially at $10,000 each around April 15. Second best advertised was a baseball game called "1937 World Series" made...
Readers of his Lives of a Bengal Lancer will remember that ex-Lancer Yeats-Brown was not only an enthusiastic polo-player and pig-sticker but an amateur of Hindu mysticism. In Lancer at Large, an account of India revised after 15 years, Hollywood will be hard put to it to find any material at all. At 50, Yeats-Brown approached India not as a sporty subaltern but as an inquiring disciple...
Skillman's "Squash Racquets" fills a much neglected and scantily treated hole in the squash-player's library. To the beginner there is no comparison in the superiority of his 190-page book over that of Harry Cowles' compressed volume. Skillman proceeds at leisure over the same ground which the "Art of Squash Racquets" tries to cover in 88 pages. He is more precise in his instructions. For example: instead of merely telling the novice always to return to the center of the court, he shows him exactly where his feet should be while waiting at the center...
...advanced player Skillman adds little and contradicts little of the Cowles System. All the fundamentals are present in both treatments, the only outstanding difference being their appraisals of the relative merits of the corner and drop shots. Skillman believes in frequent use of the corner shot from a variety of angles, while Harry Cowles prefers the drop shot, resorting to the corner only indifferently...