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Fresh-water anglers find exciting and beautiful the sight of a 12-in. trout leaping clear of a mountain stream. That seems tame to Novelist-Fisherman Zane Grey. He has seen monsters long and heavy and fierce as tigers hurtle themselves 30 ft. above the deep sea. In the current Natural History magazine, out last week, he told about them in the first account ever published of a shark that leaps when hooked...
...producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play. In We're Not Dressing Miss Lombard's yacht is wrecked when her drunken uncle (Leon Errol) steers it on a reef. When the passengers reach land, Crooner Crosby masters the situation by cooking clams, building thatched...
...Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living room in Manhasset. Jules Bache lent his often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird cage, a tame magpie. Chicago's Art Institute was represented by six small canvases showing a monk accurately and amusingly shooting and capturing a bandit. All the other pictures were portraits: the aloof La Tirana, an actress whom legend has included among Goya's mistresses; Mr. Mellon's gravely beautiful Senora...
...flashy sextet whipped an eager Harvard team by a score of 3-1 before 8000 wild fans in the Boston Garden last Saturday night. But it the same time it revealed that although the Bulldog may attack savagely it intervals, the Crimson outfit notwithstanding has the punch to tame him once it gets together...
...Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that another war is not unlikely, but insisted, contrary to general opinion, that it will be a very tame slaughter compared to the last one. His reasons: "Europe's general staffs still believe in the effectiveness of mass movements and think the larger their armies are the more powerful will they be. The fallacy of the theory was exposed a generation ago by the mechanical progress which made...