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...Porcellian wears a small gold pig on his watch chain, a long tweed jacket, tight flannel pants and a short haircut, generally contents himself with a gentleman's three Cs and a D in his studies. Most inviolable tradition: Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian. Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated. When a Porkie marries, fellow Porkies always gather round him after the ceremony and sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded...
...sheer refreshment, Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet is nothing to the sight of Mr. Conant on a mountain top, coatless, hatless, and unkempt. And some day, if the Fates are kind, we may catch a glimpse of him lounging along Quincy St., in a shabby tweed jacket, and trousers breaking slightly around the knee...
...Invisible Man Returns (Universal). People who enjoy seeing newspapers unfold themselves in midair, windows open without human assistance, unfilled suits of clothing perambulate through the landscape and an invisible hand unwind a thick swathing of head bandages and leave a headless jacket will experience a deep satisfaction at this pseudo-scientific thriller. In The Invisible Man (1933) invisibility caused the patient's death. No such silly boner is made this time. An antidote for invisibility is found, thus insuring Universal studio of the possibility of sequels as long as public interest in invisibility lasts...
...once. But aside from its lustier detonations, it is pretty much the same show. Lena still wanders up & down the aisles calling for Oscar, the little flowerpot whose owner won't claim it still grows by stages into a gigantic tree, the guy in the strait jacket still rolls around for hours trying to get out. By now, however, these whimsies have acquired a kind of historical importance, have become authentic bits of Americana like the Katzenjammer Kids and Charlie McCarthy...
Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway station to the post of censor at the Hotel Continental...