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...world's record the other day for beating a snare drum for six and a half hours. That is to say he beat the record.") He has a prodigious memory, and this year won honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for an obituary of Sir Ronald Ross, written chiefly from memory. He reads voraciously, likes to quote Emerson, says he thinks Elbert Hubbard was the best rewrite man of his age. On occasion Editor Bingay can be exceedingly sharp-tongued. Reporters under him testify that "he can take the hide off anyone in about seven sentences." When excited...
...rescued fortnight ago (TIME, July 17). He had recovered from the effects of two weeks starvation, and he was able to hobble around on his broken ankle. All he wanted now was a chance to complete the first solo flight around the world before Wiley Post could snare that honor too. His Lockheed Century of Progress was a wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness, result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost...
...lives happily at home with Sis, works out for a poor white farmer, John Sprouse. John has chronic rheumatism which does not endear him to Sarah, his lusty-bodied wife. Her eyes roam to Luther's agile body in the fields, and there they stay. She tries to snare him, but he has the wit to stay away. Meanwhile John Sprouse's worthless brother Bengo debauches Sis, and, to forestall Luther's possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl now, knows it is time...
...considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief of detectives whose duty it is to snare an amazingly subtle thief named Arsene Lupin. Asked how he proposes to do it, Lionel Barrymore snarls: ''Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit." It is a very convincing speech, because this is what Lionel Barrymore has been doing in the cinema...
...this picture and the fact that Chic Sale acts in it, into supposing that it has some connection with The Specialist, a highly successful monolog on outhouses which Mr. Sale wrote and performed in vaudeville. Though the title is a delusion, it is not likely to function as a snare. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Specialist will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick...