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...Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made-$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome. The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
Perhaps the last epic of its scope...
With Humanities 2 in third position, GE has made an almost complete sweep "Epic and Novel," taught by John H. Finley '25, Professor of Greek Literature, has an enrollment of 485 men and women...
Monday, after a day of rest, the fun begins again when people invade the Stadium for the gigantic "Open-Closed" contest. The rally for that epic tilt was held last Friday, and then the rains came. Director of Athletic Thomas D. Bolles re-scheduled that game for Monday, setting up the monster weekend...
...sponsoring the game with the H.A.A., was flooded last night by phone calls from newspapers, magazines, and radio stations attempting to arrange for coverage. WHRB hopes to broadcast the contest, Time and Life magazines called to say that they may attend, and many Boston newspapers plan stories on the epic tilt...