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Warner Baxter, "The Robin Hood of El Dorado," shoots the cursed gringos out of California to the tune of pounding hoofs and boiling blood in one of the most virile pictures of the year. The redoubtable Joachim Murietta is sympathetically apologized for. "Unguarded Hour," with Franchot Tone and Loretta Young, is a collection of harrowing crises, foremost of which is the breaking of the district attorney's spectacular prosecution, simultaneous with his being accused of murder...
...While rowing up the river in a shell he was amused to see a shiny new arrow floating downstream followed by another, equally new and every bit as shiny. After really going to town on the problem he learned that they were two of three purchased, together with a "Robin Hood" standard brand bow, from Sears, Roebuck. The two in the river were the results of bad marksmanship. The one in the Lowell House tower was the result of annoyance at a noisy robin. If you want to know more, you'll have to ask Peter White. He was there...
...hand she inevitably creates a brief illusion of being an actress learning how to handle the weapon for purposes of some romantic musical comedy, Mrs. de Tuscan won seven of her eight bouts, fencing with superb aggressiveness. Marion Lloyd, one of the two ex-champions in the round robin, beat her, but Mrs. de Tuscan beat the other, Dorothy Locke. When Miss Lloyd, who had lost to Miss Locke, lost again to a comparative newcomer named Carol Alessandroni, the tournament was over and Mrs. de Tuscan had the title. Miss Locke, No. 1 U. S. swordswoman since 1932, was first...
Last week it became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...
Whereupon, all the afternoon I to tandem in the country; and I did hear a robin and see a crocus and a beautiful day it was. By and by out of the clear sky--tells me Wellesley College girls are giving up their desserts and the price thereof to be given to flood relief. So we to get a chocolate and thence took to talking about the "Veterans of Future Wars"; and that they one day will spill blood on foreign soil and be the fathers of many children; and I still think this is mighty fine arguing...