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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...killed the movie version with what must have been its first decision--to take it out of the '30's and move it into an indefinite period which closely resembles now. The trouble with this move, which saves the studio the trouble of recreating the clothes, speech, and home furnishing style of the '30's, and enables Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey to cruise around in fancy sports cars, is that Gloria Wandrous has no relation with the Missile Age. She and her generation died long ago. Perhaps it is just that the amateur prostitute has disappeared as a type...
After the first night of the Combined Charities Drive, College undergraduates had contributed $7,314.71 towards the Drive's goal of $22,000. Yesterday's "disappointing" receipts brought the total to approximately...
Leading the Houses Monday night was Quincy with pledges amounting to $1,000.33, followed closely by Leverett House with $871.52. Dudley trailed far behind the rest of the Houses, contributing only $47 after the first day. Between Leverett and Dudley were Kirkland, Winthrop, Eliot, Lowell, Dunster, Adams, and Claverly in that order...
...film is billed as a "dramatic comedy." There is drama in it, to be sure, and its comedy scenes often provoke chuckles, yet the principal value of the film is probably to first-year French students. The plot, for all its fragility, holds one's attention most of the time, and some of the scenes are quite funny, but an average story line and a few laughs are not really sufficient reasons for going to the movies--unless one has an ulterior motive, in this case perhaps a desire to brush up on one's French...
...disillusioned milliner, was also rather static; it seemed that the director had instructed her to play a long-suffering, cynical woman, and that's about all she did. Brigitte Bardot, who appeared now and then as another dragoon's lover, acted like a high school girl in her first play...