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...character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest in the South Sea Islands, where its violent motion is dulled, and it lapses into Maugham triteness, replete with tropical...
...little interest. Rosalind Russell, more attractive in many respects than Janet Blair, is for some odd reason overlooked by all the men until she finally gets Aherne. George Tobias plays a skillful Appopoulos, the loquacious landlord with an enlarged idea of his artistic abilities. The film's continual helter-skelter action makes most of the actors first-class candidates for an asylum, but it's only a story and as such is good entertainment...
...crack shot, Finucane got his start as a unit commander when he took over a squadron of unruly Australians, adjusted himself to their helter-skelter ways as no Briton had ever been able to do. Few R.A.F. men doubted that, as lead man in a wing (two or more squadrons), Paddy Finucane could still make his elders hop to his command...
Like most Southwest and Rocky Mountain fives, West Texas State uses the spectacular "fire-engine" offense (a helter-skelter drive toward the scoring zone). In fact, Coach Baggett's system can be summed up in his one pet plea: "Boys, don't bother passing to anybody-just pass it at the basket." For defense, his galloping giraffes don't give a hoot. They just rely on "Long Taw" Charlie Halbert. 6 ft. 10, who hangs around their opponent's basket, bats out sure goals by simply reaching...
...farmers' wives, picked by Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife as representatives of the nation, were determined that, as far as they could manage it, the helter-skelter, out-of-kilter of World War I should not happen again. With stout good sense, they therefore agreed that...