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...poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...
...charges of subsidization directed overtly and covertly at some of its members, the Pacific Coast Conference last week decided to find out just how professional it really is. That the member colleges did not exactly trust one another was evidenced by the researcher they chose to investigate their affairs: pug-nosed Edwin N. Atherton, onetime G-man and recent head of San Francisco's graft inquiry...
Although Actor Homolka mars his early sequences by facial displays known as mugging, he finally brings his role under the control that distinguished his work in British films (Rhodes, A Woman Alone). Pug-faced, whimsical Barry Fitzgerald, Hollywood recruit from Ireland's Abbey Players, mugs too, but mugging, reckless shadow boxing and a cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro...
Late in the fourth quarter the Elephants decided that they would give the Bellboys some of their own medicine and tried a short, flat pass. But Lowell's fullback, Pug Piper, intercepted the heave and romped down the field to tally. The final point was rung up on a line plunge...
...Marjorie Bowen -Appleton-Century ($5). This able biography of the great satirist paints a vivid picture of the London background of Hogarth's work, tells the careers of the subjects of his portraits, describes his fight for the first copyright law (1735), explains how it happened that the pug-nosed little Cockney genius was so detested by academic critics that his achievements went unrecognized until a century after his death...