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Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
...make them convincing individuals and their dilemmas real and anguished. He has done it tenderly and surely, more surely than Eugene O'Neill in the similar explorations of Strange Interlude. The play is excellently acted. Osgood Perkins, late of The Front Page and Uncle Vanya, gives a memorable bit as the hardboiled but far from insensitive secretary of the doctor. Critics who have seen all of Mr. Barry's plays tend to pronounce Tomorrow and Tomorrow his best...
...breach between the Crimson and the Tiger is still wide open as far as football is concerned with both sides still holding on to their principles. Princeton wants a November date on the Harvard schedule, forming a rotating schedule with Harvard and Yale, in fact, a revival of the Bit Three. Harvard, on the other hand, does not want to make any long term contracts with any other college except Yale, feeling that the Blue is the one natural rival of the Crimson...
Bariol replaced Captain Ellis at goal for Harvard at the start of the final period. There was no barrage of goals as at the start of the previous chapter put there was a good bit more of exciting hockey. The crowd livened up, too, and showered its cheers and jeers on Dewar, for what particular reason nobody knew...
...university works toward making him feel small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure of undergraduate opinion, which, finding him not only insignificant but at numerous points objectionable, sets...