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...book reviewer of the highest order, and a scorner most subtle, Wilfrid Sheed can light up another man's novel, amuse the children by blowing smoke rings for a quarter of an hour, and then stub out the butt with a gesture so incisive that the wretched author resolves to forswear literature and apprentice himself to a tree surgeon. But Sheed is also a novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing...
DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL, The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin's The Tramp, Mar. 16, 17, 8 & 10, $1. Kiddie Show: Bonnie Scotland (Laurel and Hardy), Mar. 17, 10 a.m. and midnite, $.50 ($.25 at midnite showing with stub from Fri. or Sat. feature...
DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL. The Thirty-nine Steps, The General, Mar. 9, 10, 8 & 10 p.m., $1. Kid's Film Festival: The Golden Fish, The Rink, with Charlie Chaplin, Gunga Din with Mr. Magoo; three cartoons, Mar. 10, 10 a.m. and 12 midnite, $.50 (midnite showing $.25 with stub from Fri. or Sat. night...
...whispering ladies with jangly handbags, a bored cigar chomper and his prissy wife, an ecstatic temptress so caught up in the music that she seems to be seducing the piano. The sequence ends in a parody of musical chairs when an usher discovers that everyone has the wrong ticket stub...
...Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare, the event's organizers offered a refund last week to anyone who could present a ticket stub. Since few people had retained their stubs, fair officials were still trying to figure out what to do with $10,000 of unclaimed but illegally collected cash...