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...coiffure has been strangely mutilated, but her charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry about missing "Freshman Love...
When college rules demand signatures, and that natural feeling of imperfection that resides in youth demands official consultation on important academic problems, the student is confronted with the insuperable barrier that the vaunted inaccessibility of such men presents. It is only natural that men concerned with administrative problems must plot their time judiciously and can allow only small amounts of it to the students, but faculty members whose primary duties are teaching have no excuse for hiding. If the personal popularity of our young instructors is so overwhelming that they have no privacy, they might resort to eating onions...
Rose Marie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is based on the sound assumption that cinemaudiences will pay little attention to plot and trimmings if they can hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in full voice. To this end, Rose Marie producers resurrected the highly successful operetta of 1924, added some new songs, framed it in magnificent scenery, let the two leads shift for themselves. Acting with considerable charm, and bursting frequently into song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor...
Fixed Locale; Moving Plot...
...plot moves fast in the development of character and in the tautening of dramatic strains, but in locale it stays put on the edge of the great Arizona desert. Leslie Howard, an effete poet who believes himself an anachronism, a petrified stump i the midst of a petrified forest, comes upon a little bar-b-q roadhouse, the scene of all the action. There he finds Bette Davis, who confesses with an air of braggadocio passing for humility that she is nothing but a desert rat. At the same time she cannot forget that she is half French because...