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Four examples of early American motion picture comedy will be shown tonight at the first session of the Harvard Film Society's current season. Works of Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Edwin S. Porter are planned for the performance at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...
...their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White, Tillman Durdin, Arch Steele and Hal Abend...
Democratic Cleveland's Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton had won 17 consecutive elections when he defied Ohio Boss Ed Schorr last spring and got the Republican nomination for Senator. This week dark, grey-eyed Hal Burton came through once more, handily defeated onetime (1937-39) Democratic Congressman John McSweeney...
...eyed Lucille Ball gets choicer material in the well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean Rudolph Valentino who was in the stage show, make you wish there were more time for dancing; Eddie Bracken that there were more for comedy...