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Time Marches backwards through the European scene of the past decade in an interesting reel which might well be called "Downing Street Blues," and which is considerably better than the racetrack melodrama "Speed to Burn," also on the current bill...
...advantage of dovetailing with its medium. Producer Weingarten has utilized this to the best advantage. Too Hot to Handle exhibits its hero (Clark Gable) in the act of shooting a film of Alma Harding (Myrna Loy) as she arrives in China with a plane full of cholera serum. His reel is sensational because, in making it, Mr. Gable forces Miss Loy to wreck her plane. (In one of the takes for this scene, Miss Loy was trapped in the burning plane's cabin, had to be rescued in earnest by Mr. Gable.) Apologetic but not penitent, Gable pretends...
...baseball team. Lately he pitched a no-hit, no-run game against Lockeport. Last week Alfred Kenney gained greater kudos. All summer he had been hearing about the sport-only a few years old in Nova Scotia-of catching giant bluefin tuna ("horse mackerel" to old salts) on rod & reel. Up the coast at Liverpool a Cuban team had just won this year's international tuna matches from a U. S. and a British team, in a tournament that fizzled sadly when some killer whales hanging off that harbor scared the big tuna away (or so Liverpudlians claimed...
...visiting sportsmen having left for the season, Alf got his friend, Charlie Nickerson, to take him out. Captain Nickerson is one of many young commercial fishermen whom the Government has encouraged to equip themselves to guide visiting game fishermen. Alf Kenney marveled at the huge 16-0 reel and the 54-thread line, which scarcely looked hefty enough to hold a fish like the 860-pounder which Churchill Bower had brought into Shelburne few days before, taken with a keg and handline...
...heyday of Freudian psychology during the 20s, nearly every intelligentsiac bought at least "one simple popularization of Freud's works and could reel off an impromptu psychoanalysis at the drop of a symbol. With Depression, Freud was more & more often supplanted either by such former disciples as Alfred Butler, who called his adaptation "Individual Psychology," or by Karl Marx. To some observers, Freud's declining popularity among common readers looked permanent...