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...funniest show since he swapped his horned rimes for a megaphone. In its best moments the picture is side-splitting farce with Lucille Ball showing the potentialities of another Ann Sothern as the pretty bit of platinum that couldn't decide between a guy with "Brooks" on his vest and a gob with hair on his chest. In its worst moment the feature dribbles into a standard Hollywood potboiler which never boils over. Devoid of plot but full of Saroyanesque minor characters, "A Girl, A Guy, and A Gob" is, like a Harvard education, patchy but good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Vorhaus found little case in eating his dinner. "I ought to have a vest that bends, yet can't be pierced. A can of oil would come in handy, too," he concluded. "This thing squeaks something awful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Dons Armor, Gets Ready For Mars Invasion | 5/7/1941 | See Source »

...preparing for the invasion from Mars," said Lewis J. Vorhaus '44 as he walked into the Union yesterday noon wearing the dress of a Roman centurion with armored vest, sword and helmet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Dons Armor, Gets Ready For Mars Invasion | 5/7/1941 | See Source »

...start smoking cigars and cigarettes, instead of those awful pipes, and would stop wearing brightly colored sport jackets". It seems that one of the things instrumental in Miss Keith's change of opinion was a Harvard man whom she traveled with and who "shocked" her by wearing a red vest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tassel Dancer Says Harvard Men Cynical | 3/22/1941 | See Source »

...With vest pocket Romeo Roland Young furthering the careers of a lot of hardworking blondes--some further than others--and doing it on the budget of a wife so tight that she sends paper napkins out to be dry cleaned, it takes Anna Neagle to straighten everything out. While combing mistresses out of her Uncle Bluebeard's whiskers, Miss Neagle sings, dances, and acts as well as ever. The word is "Yes" for "No, No, Nanette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Comrade X" | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

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