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...Kaye because it tries, at first, to be a parody, and a rather subtle one, of Hollywood's own breed of medieval extravaganza. The turning point seems to come after Roderick, gurgling, "Wenches, laughter, song! That's what we need around this old castle," sends his men out to scour the countryside. In an amusing take-off on Western posse scenes the King's men roll about the land picking up cart-loads of wenches. The cameras linger on the wenches, and good clean medieval escapades soon outdo their parody; after this, The Court Jester becomes a one-man show...
Samurai now propounds its moral: that a headstrong man is of no use to his nation unless he is tamed by virtue. While regiments of armed men scour the hills for Toshiro, a deceptively jolly priest (Kuroemon Onoe) and a frightened girl (Kaoru Yachigusa) ensnare him with kindness. Brought home, Toshiro is trussed up like a maniac and suspended from a tall tree. Each morning and evening the priest inquires if his spirit is broken, and Toshiro answers with howling curses. The girl frees the prisoner, but the wily priest traps Toshiro again, this time locks him in a tower...
...H.A.A.'s ticket system this fall did not confine its mix-ups to Thursdays, Friday, and Saturdays, however. Besides scrambling at the end of the week to get their tickets, undergraduates frequently had to scour the College on Monday merely to get the envelopes with which to apply for tickets. A similar problem became even more infuriating a week before the Yale game, when House superintendents ran out of Yale discount slips on Monday and gave out Dartmouth ones in stead. A few days later the H.A.A. announced that it could not accept the Dartmouth slips, so some 130 upperclassmen...
...World War. Dalmia was never too busy to scour India for pretty women who might give him a son. Some times he married them, sometimes not. He admired Hitler, hung pictures of him on his walls, and insisted that if Britain had sent him to Munich instead of Chamberlain, there would have been no world war. Indian politics did not interest...
Since networks and stations had little detailed program information, TV Guide's Publisher James Quirk, veteran Philadelphia newsman and onetime press chief for General Matthew Ridgway in Korea and Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional...