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West of the Water Tower. Since the book on which this film was founded has been widely sold and widely discussed (TIME, June 11) it seems unnecessary to detail the plot. Sufficient unto the story is the memorandum that it is a tale of Western small town life, youthful love and the bigotry of rural ignorance. As transferred to the screen and interpreted by Glenn Hunter, it seems to lodge safely among the leading half dozen pictures of the year...
...plot is concerned there really isn't much of any. People fall in love with the wrong people and are noisily reprimanded. The servant in the house, played expertly by Helen Broderick, causes most of the laughter. Vivian Martin, Elliott Nugent and Cornelia Otis Skinner add favorable contributions...
...plot is not especially thrilling. Miss Binney picks a discarded letter to her cousin who stars in the Follies out of the fireplace and answers it. Eventually, an exciting correspondence develops between her and a young engineer in South America who is under the delusion that he is writing to the Follies lady. When he invents a new kind of switch and comes to New York to confer with the New York Central Railroad, the complications begin, which carry every one back to Peru for the last act. This last act, by the way, is just a bit fanciful...
...amorous adventures of Miss Peggy Reese, played by C. H. Morgan '24, furnish the keynote to the plot. The roles of her two admirers, Dr. Hyde and Mr. Seek, are played by E. S. Washburn '25 and E. A. Sawin '25 respectively. There is, according to the advance notices, more female pulchritude in the chorus than in any former Pi Eta production...
...with his scenes and costumes for Scheherazade and the Russian Ballet, will come to America in January to lecture (in English) on new ideas of form and color. Bakst's most recent triumphs include the Nuits Ensorcelées (Enchanted Nights) for the Paris Opera. He devised the plot, painted the scenery and selected the Chopin incidental music. Then Jacques Rouche, the director of the Opera, asked him to prepare a new ballet for next Spring, Folle Jeunesse (Mad Youth...