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...musicians, kings, carousels and clowns-as bright and intricate as fine Turkish rugs. Hasan's color effects are strong, to say the least: blood red and seasick green, harlequin combinations of yellow, black, mauve and blue. His figures are tortured and twisted: grinning, round-faced peasants with shark's teeth, haunted, droopy-eyed old women, a wheel-shaped nightmare of a sea captain. On opening day, five of the pictures were snapped up and the gallery was looking for a sellout...
...Smith (Nat Holt; Paramount) is a flurry of low melodrama on the high seas. Included in the excitement: pirates taking over a slave ship, a battle between the ship's officers and the shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...
Yankee Buccaneer has more than its share of pitched battles, broadsides, plank walkings, scurvy epidemics, pirate attacks and pistol-point escapes. It even has a man-eating shark which Farragut subdues. But it is still no great shakes as either Hollywood hokum or history...
...Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet, at the 200-meter mark by four, at the 300-meter mark...
Maxwell sank the rest of his capital into building a shark factory on his island and buying war-surplus navy boats, gear and harpoons. Interested friends subscribed more money. He collected a crew consisting partly of local fishermen, partly of hard-boiled seadogs, whose language often depended solely upon "all the monosyllables . . . used in turn, as nouns, adjectives and adverbs." Would-be adventurers clamored to join the project; their letters often told an old familiar story...