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When Irish-Catholic playwrights experience the tug of pious inspiration, the results are likely to be more ennobling than entertaining. The Joyous Season, like Eugene O'Neill's Days Without End, is a serious and ambitious drama, celebrating Faith. It achieves its purpose smoothly but without that wit which, in plays condoning uncomfortable sophistication, gave Playwright Barry his authority. Handsomely produced by Arthur Hopkins, softly performed in a Robert Edmond Jones drawing-room, it provides Lillian Gish with a role which she acts as gracefully as the easier one her chipper sister has in By Your Leave...
Illinois' Fullback Dave Cook broke a tug-of-war with Northwestern by a handsome place kick from the 22-yd. line...
...ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case, his wife resolutely crying: "No! No! No! No interviews!" At length the Einsteins climbed into the tug, chuffed off to the Battery where an automobile waited to take them to Princeton. Meanwhile, on the Westernland's pier, orchid-raising Lawyer Samuel Untermyer stood with a bouquet of his blooms as head of a welcoming committee appointed by bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien...
High noon is rum time on the ships of the British Navy in temperate waters, from the dreadnaught Nelson to the little tug St. Abbs. In the tropics rum hour is 6 p. m. Then the seamen hear the quartermaster pipe, "Up spirits!" Down in the mess the caterer slops into each seaman's "basin" (bowl) one part rum in three parts water. The rum is mixed in a large tub around whose rim, in brass letters, are the words: "The King-God Bless Him." On the King's birthday all hands get a double ration of straight...
...stormy night when Annie is towing a load of garbage out to sea, she comes on the Glacier Queen, her shaft broken, foundering near a reef. This time Terry behaves like a hero. He crawls into the fire box of the Narcissus to repair the boiler so that the tug can pull the Glacier Queen out of danger. The film ends with Terry recovering from his burns and wear ing a medal. The steamship company has bought back the Narcissus for Annie and she is reconciled with...