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Boogie Woogie & Bases. The extras included boogie-woogie bands and tightrope walkers. He put on a "swing shift" ball game (beginning at 6 a.m.) for night workers in war plants, and gave away sway-back nags and pigeons (without cages) as door prizes...
...students and spinsterish schoolteachers. He though of the season at the beach, lying in the sun all day, long drives on cool summer evenings. And here he was, going back to school. Back to stifling college rooms and trying to listen to long lectures, while outside, green leaves would sway beckoningly. And here was Vag, carrying his bulging bag down Dunster Street, a cigarette danging from his lips, and beginning to perspire...
...wildness, plus new restraint, sadness and subtlety. He is used more centrally than before, and this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such irrefutable conviction that even the outrageously bad ones are funny. (Sample: "Your life is hanging by a thread." "So are my pants...
...This old sway-backed horse opera should have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...
...focus reader attention on headlines scattered over a broader expanse of paper, the managing editor prescribed Cheltenham bold to replace the former New York Timesish condensed type. Cheltenham held sway for 20 years when it was voted to go streamlined with so called Airport. The present Board of Editors have decided to change once more by introducing the more relined Bodoni as part of the Crimson's post-war reconstruction...