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...heroine, sultry siren; the ba-ad, ba-a-ad gangster; the well-greased reporter; beefy foto-man; city editor on the perpetual verge of a nervous breakdown; and then, of course, somebody gets murdered just to start things off with a bang. A perfect set-up for a grade-B picture...
...writer of the article on Mayor John Hale Levi (TIME, Feb. 19) did not report the name on the box of stogies correctly. It should have been SHARTZ'S HIGH GRADE STOGIES. I might add that these stogies have been manufactured in Gallipolis, Ohio for over 60 years...
...morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, a message from the principal's office came to Mrs. L. M. Smith's eighth-grade math class at Monroe High School, Rochester, N. Y. John W. Clark, 13, brightest boy, was wanted home immediately. He was to be excused for the rest of the day. For Mme Kirsten Flagstad of the Metropolitan Opera Company wanted John Clark to have lunch with...
From title to final fade-out there is nothing new, nothing unexpected in this satisfying grade-B picture. But at least nothing is left out. First there is the stock shot of the Manharian sky-line. Then the murder, the sirens and the police-radio, the scene in the D. A.'s office with the reporters. After a short sequence in the jail with the stircrazy cell-mate, the court-room scene begins. It involves a dead-locked jury and a new witness before everything winds up happily, the mystery is unraveled, and the newspaper headlines proclaim the verdict. Amazingly...
Every now and then the U. T. performs a signal act of merit which makes everyone forget its occasional Grade B pictures. Last year it was the showing of "Mayerling" which brought plaudits, and today it is "Der Unsterbliche Walzer." In presenting this German language movie about the life of Johann Strauss, the U. T. is making a real cultural contribution to the Harvard community...