“THE time has come,” W. C. Fields would moan, with his usual all-seeing, alcoholic meditativeness, “to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” Well, to grasp a tail, the new films of the ...

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byRobert Lewis Taylor. Doubleday, $3.50. A smartly written and most engaging account of the inimitable comedian and juggler, the sadistic W. C. Fields. For those who remember the great days of ...

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