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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...picture rights and released their product here, apparently without opposition. Their White Cargo is an uninspired photograph of the stage play acted by a fair stock company. Early in its proceedings you realize with a shock that it was this play that brought the useful word "acclimatized" into the current argot. There is also, as the young Englishman, new to Africa, proceeds toward moral degeneration, frequent mention of "damp rot." Its novelty is gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being...
...program current at the University Theatre is a queer mixture of good and bad. The feature picture, "Looked Doors", is based upon a play by Channing Pollock, which if well directed and well acted would have made as fine a movie melodrama as one could ever hope to see. But in the transition from stage to screen, "Locked Doors" suffered a multitude of indignities, and now it appears as a movie, basically the same as the play, but still a very pale copy of the original...
Sandomire and the third year editors will contribute notes on fine points of law in more restricted fields. The second year students under Hawes will review important current cases being tried before American and English supreme courts. The book review department, conducted by Hatch, will call the attention of law students to the most recent worthwhile books on legal subjects or subjects connected with the work of the profession...
Although the cohorts of Grover Whalen have had little success in solving the riddle of "who killed Arnold Rothstein", Paramount has advanced a neat solution of the whole mystery. "The Street of Chance", now current at the Uptown is based frankly upon the known facts of the Rothstein murder with a mixture of adduced facts and some love interest added thereto in order to make a presentable movie plot...
...announced previously, the examination in the New York Times Current Events-contest will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in Widener O. Dr. J. F. Sly of the Department of Government is in charge...