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...very greatest of motion pictures. Such enthusiastic verdicts as 'masterpiece' and 'super-epic' are tossed about so freely that constant usage tends to destroy much of their value....but in discussing this film it is imperative to bring them out once more...
...Eliot House, and a similar joint conference of students and tutors in the House, selected from the fields of English, the Classics, and History and Literature, has been proposed. It is planned that the group will concentrate on some subject common to all of the departments, a study of epic poetry, for example. Each of the tutees will read material dealing with some aspect of the subject which is pertinent to his field and there will be papers and discussion...
...coming governor relies largely on the current taste for catchy abbreviations, with its NRA and RFC and OWA and CCC, to put over his election. His plan is the EPIC plan--End Poverty in California. His instruments will be the CAL, the CAP, and the CAM--California Authority for Land, for Production, and for Money. The symbol of EPIC will be the Golden Bee (in contrast to the predatory Blue Eagle of the NRA) and its motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect...
...obstacles to the realization of the EPIC Utopia are so obvious as scarcely to need comment. They fairly jump at the reader of the book. Not only is Sinclair's economic theory shoddy, but his Rousseau-istic faith in the goodness of man is child-like in its simplicity. That all the wealthy people in California would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August...
James Cagney's latest tough boy spiel, now on the University sheet under the cognomen of "Lady Killer," is the fastest moving and most entertaining film released since "Bomb Shell." Like that Harlow epic, it is no esthete's reward, not yet a De Mille nogrom of the conventions; it is purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief...