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...score was 2 to 0 for Chicago. Side-whiskered Guy Bush, who looks like a nervous villain in a melodrama, had been through the Yankee line-up once, pitching carefully, without allowing a hit. At the start of the fourth. Bush walked Combs. made Scwell ground out, frowned darkly when Ruth hit a whistling single to right. Gehrig, stamping his feet on the caked dust, waited till the count was two balls and two strikes. His bat met the next pitch, a Bush screwball, squarely. The ball traveled into the screaming right field bleachers for a homerun...
...plays to be considered are as follows: "Marching as to War" by Robert E. Sherwood '18; "Father William" by Donald Ogden Stewart; "The Genius and His Brother" by Sil Vara; "Lazzaro" by Luigi Pirandello; "The Villain is a Hero After All" by Eugene Walter; "The Life is Real" by Elmer Rice; "The Third Day" by John Van Druten; and "Dr. Harmer's Holiday" by Sir Arthur Pinero. None of these plays has been produced before in this country, which is in keeping with the Club's policy of producing new plays as often as possible...
...tuna in the distance, the bait-thrower, the lashing together of double lines with two poles for the big tuna, the wild scenes with three fish continuously in the air, the sharks' sinister grey shadows beneath the surface. The tuna are the composite hero throughout, the sharks the composite villain. The sharks "settle everything," tumble drowning fishermen, end love triangles, horrify audiences. Robinson writhes and mouths his lines in an effective, fat facsimile of Lionel Barrymore's acting. Zita Johann, beauteous Austrian-born importation from Manhattan, is a convincing emotionalist, serious and big-eyed...
...Angeles court discharged an $82 judgment against Noah Beery, cinema villain, when he declared himself indigent. Said he: "Yes, I own Paradise Ranch. And yes, there are fish on it, but the income from the ranch isn't enough to feed the fish." He said he had only 19 days film work this year; that his huge stickpin was glass...
...follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love. For a while he liked it. Unfortunately he was a black-hearted villain, with ambitions toward a respectable marriage. Since Jane threatened to be an embarrassing liability he decided to liquidate her. Benson was quickly arrested and the affair would have gone hard with him had not District Attorney Welden made an enemy of able, weasly Lawyer Hopkinson. The latter, hoping to discredit...