Word: superhumanize
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Despite Hickman's superhuman efforts to find a winning team among the limited material on hand, the Blue has had an in-and-out season: After opening the campaign in impressive style by stopping a hefty Brown outfit, 28-13, the Elis were barely able to squeeze by a determined Connecticut eleven. Then Columbia came to town and fought off a last-minute rally to overcome Yale 34-28, but the Blue stermed back the following week to take Wisconsin's Badgers...
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both 33, already have a new crimebuster on their drawing boards. Their Funnyman is an athletic, but not quite superhuman, combination of swashbuckler and Keystone Cop. Now competing with Superman for the comic-bookworms, Funnyman will jump to the funnypapers when Siegel & Shuster find a syndicate...
Here, in a superhuman cliche, ends the first chapter of Columbia's newest serial, finished last week. Superman, which cost $350,000, is one of the most expensive serials ever made. It will not be seen on Broadway, nor reviewed in the papers, but it will play in 7,000 U.S. movie houses and hundreds of schools. After 36 years, the serial (trade name: cliffhanger) is still a profitable Hollywood industry...
...leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part...
...have to be especially tolerant or you choke with hate. Gee, it's easy to hate these guys, if you let yourself. They're so awful. Every one a heel, everyone a procurer, every one a talker. Look at them." Bemelmans remains tolerant often with what must be a superhuman effort, and the book keeps a delicate balance between friendly sympathy and sharp satire...