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Macdonald is a certain starter against the Quakers on Saturday, and he will probably be ready for contact work tomorrow. The only casualties in the point-a-minute Chicago romp were three minor charley horses for Charley Spreyer, Frannie Lee, and Chub Peabody. All three will be ready for action by tomorrow. Ernie Sargeant, another reported casualty, was back in his regular first-string guard spot yesterday...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: GRIDMEN DRILL FOR TILT WITH QUAKERS | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Triple threat Torbie Macdonald was almost the whole show Saturday morning as he led the Varsity A team to a five touchdown romp over the B team in the season's first game scrimmage at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRIDDERS STAGE FIRST REAL GAME SCRIMMAGE | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

With Dartmouth in third place the Crimson now hold a half-game lead over Cornell, who defeated Yale Friday in a romp...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: Stahlmen Overpower Dartmouth 8-5 to Pace Eastern League | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...stunt is never so startling the second time, and The Hot Mikado, though much more audacious than the Federal Theatre version, suffers from tagging at its heels. Further, when the Swing Mikado is willing to let itself go, it becomes a gayer and more abandoned romp. But simply as a show, The Hot Mikado wins hands down. It is gaudy, glittering, foot-wise, fast. It spurns Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy operas for Harlem's Savoy ballroom. It is less profitably compared with the Swing Mikado than with such spirited colored shows as Blackbirds of 1928, Shuffle Along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...matter how varied her roles, Clandette Colbert gilds them with her own delightful personality and carries a Midas-touch of success. Despite its title, "Midnight" takes her from moonlight romance to a light-hearted Paris where she can romp with royalty but feel more at home with taxi-drivers. It is a sprightly picture, never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

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