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...Connecticut Yankee (Fox). Mark Twain's story was made into an effective farce in silent cinema days, starring Harry Myers; then it became a successful musi-comedy. But not until its present metamorphosis into a talking picture has a form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire...
...producers have not cabined themselves by letter-reverence to the script. They have gone on inventing, adding to the details of the fantasy, just as Mark Twain would have delighted in doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers...
...Mark Twain," Dr. Carpenter, Harvard...
...will compete tonight are: W. S. Baskerville, Jr., '32, from "Creation," by J. W. Johnson; R. N. Clark '32, from "Morte d' Arthur," by Malory; D. I. Cooke '31, on the "Ecclesiastes; D. B. Edmundson '32, from "New England Weather," by Mark Twain; R. S. Fitzgerald '33, from "The Heart of Darkness," by Conrad; G. E. Lodger '32, from Plato's "Apology;" T. I. Moran '32, from "American Isolation," by O. D. Young; P. C. Reardon '32, from "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes; J. J. Ryan, Jr., '31. from Wilson's first inaugural address; and D. M. Sullivan '33, from...
...Notable exceptions: Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Tolstoy...