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...like Jack Oakie's cockiness and Lanny Ross' voice you will enjoy "College Rhythm" in spite of the plot. As a matter of fact there is no plot according to all dicta of drama, as far as the reviewer could determine. The action hovers around unrevealed and unrequited love, a theme which is as old as the world itself...
...exceeds the intricacies of real living. Admirers of la belle Claudette will find her somewhat lacking in a display of those things for which they formerly admired her but they will see an interesting study of a stolen film. Only a small part of the interest in the involved plot is centered on the leading lady while all the minor characters except Jessie, the daughter, take every scene in which they appear. Only when the world's oldest story is repeated does Miss Colbert do better than her support...
...plot is divided into no less than four main tracks which scarcely overlap but the leads of each are sufficiently amusing. The honors of the film go to Ned Sparks who suggests that the story of Aunt Jemima be told using the name of Aunt Delilah as the pegro cook who first had the recipe for the best tasting pancake batter in the world and to Warren Williams as the ichthyologist who falls in love with Colbert but cannot marry her because the daughter has fallen in love with him and the marriage would separate the mother and daughter which...
...write a novel worth opening." Last week readers who had long since shut Herrick's old-fashioned novels were opening Vardis Fisher's latest book with mingled anticipation and dread. After reading the first two volumes of his U. S. tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot), they knew they could expect a vicariously agonizing experience, reported with such rare and serious candor that it would give them a painfully interesting three hours. Author Fisher is trying to write an honest book. Readers of the first three installments will admit, some wryly and some with excitement, that...
...villain need be! Passions spin the plot...