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...assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...
...goes. If you like this bundle of grunting, r'aring sox, you will doubtless enjoy her latest movie. The opus lacks the freshness of the first, partly for the reason that Miss West's favorite remarks to males have been publicized to the point of near extinction, and partly for the reason that few, if any, new ones have been added. The gags in the picture have apparently been ground out by some studio back with a memory stopping at the year 1918, and with a bad case of the jitters; the music, if you care to call it such...
...program of tonight's concert will consist of Beethoven's first three string quartets, Opus 18, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The remaining concerts of the series will complete a cycle, in chronological order, of all the composer's 17 quartets. These concerts will be given on the following Thursday evenings: November 23, December 14, January 18, February 15, March 15, and April...
Stephen Leacock, the astounding fellow who possesses both a Professorship in Economics and what some people have seen fit to term a sense of humor, has completed a magnum opus, a life of Charles Dickens, which is to be published on November 16. It is something of a shock to consider the name Leacock in connection with a serious work. It will be interesting to note whether that shock interferes with an appreciation of the work...
...those scenes so common to cinema colleges: there are no freshman skull-caps in evidence, no beauteous co-eds roller-skating on the campus and no fraternity initiations. Considering that it has taken only four years for Hollywood genius to advance from the nauseating stupidity of the Red Grange opus to the amiable nonsense of "Saturday's Millions," a naturally optimistic soul might find reason to believe that it will not be more than forty years before a really good football movie is produced...