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...Sign of the Cross," the current feature offering at the University, Cecille de Mille again exhibits his technique as the master of the spectacle. Thirty tame, toothless lions, many fine Roman matrous dressed in the best 1932 drapery, flashing chariots, and tons of Roman cutlery, not to mention several yards of early Christian beards, exciting pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because...
...difficult to award the laurels for acting. Certainly high honors go to Robert Breckinridge '35, who as the prosecuting attorney, is the central figure. To see such a part which lends itself to "strutting and bellowing" portrayed in a manner "not too tame either" was indeed a pleasure...
They must therefore continue their toasts in expensive red wine "to the long life of President von Hindenburg!" and try as hard as possible to "tame" Adolf Hitler further. He was offered last August the Premiership of Prussia, the Vice Chancellorship of the Reich, three Federal Cabinet posts. He turned down all offers in hopes of winning a straight Nazi majority in the Reichstag...
...whole week thereafter Japanese never ceased to fete the happy man from Manchukuo. As a special treat he was taken to a pond in the gardens of the Royal Palace, given a gun, permitted to shoot tame ducks...
...Lord Grey got a pair of canvasbacks, duck & drake, from two breeders who had raised them from U. S. eggs. They were pinioned and tame. For six months the birds showed no attachment for each other, then the duck began sitting on five eggs. Five young ducks were hatched, four lived to maturity. They were very shy, would not feed while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread...