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...Army Game (W. C. Fields). Mr. Fields is one of the funniest of movie madmen. He is, unfortunately for the movies, too often concerned with legitimate acting. In this latest film they have taken many of the skits which he has made famous in vaudeville and revues and strung them together in a loose and often ludicrous adventure. There is no story. Mr. Fields plays a village druggist who involves himself in a variety of domestic difficulties. His lovely clerk (Louise Brooks) runs away with a real estate salesman. Outside of the few metropoles which have watched Mr. Fields...
...Cover Charge" has neither plot, nor beginning nor end. The aurnor purports to supply one in the career of Alan, the hero. What it comes down to is a series of sordid affairs strung together with a certain deftness which is hardly compelling. In flashers, Mr. Woolrich's characters stand out in three dimensions. For the most part, however, they remain the tinsel marionnettes which the author undoubtedly intended them to be in order to gain his distorted effects. He tries to be surprising and clever in his use of words and situations but he too often descends to sheer...
Northwestern University's enormous Patten Gymnasium resounded shrilly with high school cheers. It was the national interscholastic track championships. When the high hurdles were strung out for the 60-yard race, a dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second...
...refused all nutriment. Lonely and cold, their hearts aswoon for the drowsy sweetness of the jungles of Brazil, they pined in languor, gazing with lacklustre eyes at troughs filled with such tasty morsels as corn, ants, dead flies, bread and mice. Keepers conferred. One day huge electric lights were strung along the lizard house. The iguanas awoke out of their nostalgia. They wriggled joyfully in the light of the strange and sterile suns above them; crept to the troughs, ate greedily...
...personality and eccentricities of Mr. Nobel were recalled at length. Born in 1833, at Stockholm, he was so delicate and sickly as a child that when his family moved to St. Petersburg it was feared that he would not survive. There, however, he grew into a nervous high-strung youth, who paradoxically combined extreme personal sensitiveness with a passion for explosives...