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...Near Rimbey, Alberta, rescuers of snowbound, frostbitten Alexander Swanson, anxious not to disturb him, hitched a tractor to his shack, dragged it 38 miles to a hospital while Swanson stayed...
PRIVATE R. R. SWANSON...
...play of about six years back, "Reflected Glory." In a way it seems a shame that the dust was disturbed, for the play was none-too-good when Tallulah Bankhead starred in it on its last appearance, and it makes a poor vehicle for the stage debut of Gloria Swanson, the well-known screen star. The play deals with the life of a rising actress and her feelings about life in the theatre. She babbles constantly about wanting to marry and have a home of her own, but the audience knows from the start that she really loves the theatre...
...addition to the shortcomings of the story, those of the direction succeed in destroying whatever vitality was originally there. Miss Swanson is made to parade back and forth across the stage in search of either a cigarette or an ash-tray in a manner that resembles Mac West imitating Katie Hepburn. This is a great shame, since Miss Swanson has a definite personality of her own which appears all too infrequently. When the influence of the director is apparently absent, she does a very fine job, particularly in the opening of the third act. Her limited knowledge of the stage...
...Jayvees' surge has been in the making for less than a week. Up to that time Abbot's shell had held an undisputed if narrow margin over Cunningham's, and even Bert Haines had expressed himself as confident that the "firsts" with Captain Bobby Lincoln, Abbot, Andy Gaudielle, Dick Swanson, and a host of other veterans aboard, would continue to hold its place...