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Like his confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hate- blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number...
...Soviet Gov ernment by telegraph that working condi tions in the gold fields had been made in tolerable and impossible by the interference and oppression of Soviet officials and. secret police. In these circumstances Lena wired that she was cancelling the powers of attorney of her representatives in Rus sia, withdrawing all her Occidental representatives from the country, and would await the decision of the Arbitral Board upon what must inevitably be the final winding up of the concession...
Cain and Artem (Amkino). This adaptation of one of Maxim Gorky's stories shows the fellowship of three people?a giant, a Jew, a fishmonger's wife?in a miserable town beside a Rus-sian river. Theirs is a fellowship of rejection: the giant does not know what to do with his strength; the woman is in disgrace because she is unfaithful to her husband and because she was a beggar when she married; everyone in the marketplace cheats the Jew and spits on him. The bond that draws slowly tighter, pulling them together, although not strong enough to keep...
...stage before the lean years fell on the spangle manufacturers. Among the show's subtler assets are a waltz by Moss & Fontana, a bedroom scene in which Gertrude Lawrence creates considerable foolishment, and the spinning, leaping rhythms of Anton Dolin, a swarthy Englishman who once led the Diaghiliev Rus-sian ballet. Jimmy McHugh has written pleasant songs ("On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Exactly Like You") which are plugged by Harry Richman. But the revue is in general gaudy, vulgar, and provides little opportunity for the best efforts of its best talent...
...educated in St. Petersburg schools and at Worcester College, Oxford; served in the World War in the 5th Reserve Cavalry, with the Military Attache of the British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples, The Vanity Bag, Perfectly Scandalous (a play...