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...boudoirs, Niagara Falls, a burlesque queen's bed, a beauty salon and finally to the spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped slipper and at the same time keep the treacherous bicycle bell quiet, makes a notable addition to the library of Hope classics in hilarity...
...like some young men of the stricken nations, you look to a false security--if you count on an easy victory--if you think of doing something but not too much for the war--you may face the saddest of all fates: you may die, but die in vain, because you do not die soon or well enough...
President Conant's report to the Board of Overseers is a sound and stimulating survey of the University in its first year of war. But undergraduates are still primarily interested in their own fate, not in the University's, and they will hunt through the report in vain for remarks affecting their immediate plans. But neither President Conant nor University Hall can or should make recommendations before the facts are all before them. Those facts have not yet come through...
...chimpanzee, using all the tricks of the accomplished mugger, stealing every scene, cussing, spitting, pinching and generally acting as if he enjoyed every minute of his poverty. It seems as though James Barton is almost too good a comedian, for his "heavy" scenes misfire, with the audience waiting in vain for a flow of damns or hells...
Back to U.S. soil came pictures of American graves in French North Africa: barren crosses in endlessly shifting sand, marking the bodies of boys who did not want to die in vain. And from North Africa also came the peculiar shifting tides of political forces bigger than any man, forming patterns whose size was a frightening reminder that human events sometimes move faster than the human spirit can follow...