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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...
...number of reasons the "Inferno" is used to shelter the erotic literature. Preservation is also a paramount consideration here. According to Haynes, studies like Freud's "interpretation of Dreams" and Havelock Ellis' "Psychology of Sex" are kept locked up because "the Library was continualy losing these looks...
...unequivocal stand on this issue. But at the same time we feel that he has stated his case inadequately and perhaps so idealistically that it becomes naive. President Conant should not be afraid to explain further his concepts, and in so doing, to grapple more fully with the paramount issues facing the public schools at present...
Anything Can Happen (Paramount] might be subtitled George Papashvily Discovers America. What does happen: 1) George Papashvily (José Ferrer), a Don Quixote in a caracul cap, arrives...
...human knowledge in its particular department of science has been equaled by no other institution of its kind in the United States and by few in the world. Our equipment is the best." Throughout Pickering's time the study of the physical properties of the stars was paramount...