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...will play it and the Andrews Sisters will sing it and high-school jitterbugs all over the country will dance to it, and two months later it will be forgotten. It's the casiest thing in the world for a good dance orchestra to get itself into a musical rut by doing just this thing. Tommy Dorsey is a good example of those who have fallen by the wayside because of riff tunes...
...Dudley is favored over a weakend Lowell eleven. Sparked by back Johnny Santosuoso, the Commuters hope to redeem themselves from their 0-0 tie with Eliot last week. Veterans Bill Murphy, Dean Morse, and Elmer Taylor, however, may succeed in pulling the Bellboy's out of last week's rut...
...team-morale sunk, so poor was the performance predicted for a half-manned team. But the squad decided to go ahead and do its best. When they returned victorious, the trackmen were almost as surprised as the sports writers. For track at Harvard is in a rut this spring...
...distortion of perspective exists contributes to the vibrancy of the entire piece by supplementing the intense colors which he uses. Cumming's landscape, also an oil, is an excellent example of how an artist can superimpose his own originality upon the technique of impressionism without slipping into the dangerous rut of staleness...
...Halevy (Anne Shirley) and Rims Rosson (John Garfield), a shy, lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy (Elizabeth Risdon), a cinemaddict, has spent a lifetime knitting her husband a sweater, but has never finished it. There is also cheap, dissatisfied Florrie Halevy (Lee Patrick), who henpecks her bill-collector husband (Roscoe Karns...