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...form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled by Norma Shearer and the competent Lewis Stone. Its difficulties lie in its adaptation from the original play. The lack of variety in scene and the preponderance of long speeches, compensated on the legitimate stage by the direct contact with audience, avoids monotony by a small margin...
...Candle Light" which is now playing at the Wilbur is another of the sophisticated Viennese comedies with all of the leading characters parading under a title, real or assumed. The plot is not particularly unusual, but it offers considerable opportunity for appropriate cleverness, which, if not realized to its fullest extent, is still well enough done to make a thoroughly amusing play...
Although Indian Territory Illuminating Co., Cities Service subsidiary, will benefit from the gusher, co-benefactors will be Vince Sudik and his wife, Mary. In 1903 the Sudiks came from Nebraska, claimed and farmed the now-famed plot of land, will collect about one-eighth of the oil profits. Last week Mrs. Sudik was not on hand to see the gusher. She was visiting a hospital where her first grandchild had just been born. Said she: "My good fortune is having such a lovely granddaughter." Vince Sudik, however, announced his early retirement from active agriculture...
Those who visited Holy Cross Cemetery last week found that the body of Priest Power had been reburied in a new grave. Around it stood a seven-foot fence. Around the old tomb and the whole Power plot were similar barricades. Posted nearby were grim-faced State police. Manifestly neither Church nor State intended to permit helter-skelter demonstrations. Announced Cardinal O'Connell: "Those who go to the cemetery for just and pious reasons must be prepared to obey strictly the regulations, else they will be excluded...
Movieland is a thinly-disguised portrait of Hollywood: a series of cinematic, lavishly colored scenes strung together on the thinnest thread of plot-a revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death...