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...ZANUCK . . . pitches his picture high by 20th Century. Samuel Goldwyn, Reliance, London Films, Viking Productions and Walt Disney. Most active company releasing through? United Artists is Darryl Zanuck's lively year-old 20th Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India; The Mighty Barnum, with Wallace Beery in the title role. Samuel Goldwyn...
...shrill gossipy termagant...
...like old times when the record crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner...
Professor Pereda (TIME. April 9, p. 18), during his seven-day fast, did not go home to bed-he remained at the Plaza night and day. And he did not shrill at the woman from the U. S. when he said: "You damned woman...
...knight." Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast on his trumpet. When the pacifist speaker called for a cheer for peace a member of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club called for a cheer for war. The student body enjoyed the show hugely...