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Babes on Broadway (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Even in Hollywood, the custom among the males is to grow up first, and then get married. Against-the-grain Mickey Rooney, 21, got married last week to 19-year-old Hollywood Newcomer Ava Gardner. That adulthood is something he has yet to attain as an actor, Babes on Broadway makes uncomfortably plain. Miss Gardner, fresh from easygoing North Carolina, may have a maturing, decelerating effect on her breathless mate; in that case the future may be worth hanging around...
Jaffe said that there was some possibility of a renewal of publication in the near future, and that in the meantime he hoped that "the future of the Guardian as the Liberal Union's publication will attain the heights reached by the Progressive in the past. There is a definite place in Harvard for a liberal magazine...
...that Harlow will do anything short of losing a game the preceding Saturday to make his eleven the underdog for the next contest on the schedule, and certainly the fact that Loren MacKinney will not play Saturday won't make it harder for the Crimson's venerable oologist to attain his goal...
...smoothly which the forwards. Jack Clarke, a Junior who has not played since his Freshman year, was a surprise starter at right half as Coach Jim McDonald sought to find a telling combination for the game. Clarke has both power and speed and with a little more play will attain the ball perfection he lacks at the moment...
...tall, dark 30-year-old Southern girl, Nancy Sasser has in short order won a success that many a professional might not attain in a lifetime. Out of her amateur spirit something new under the sun has been born...