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...required course delight in dragging into the argument a romantic description of what a university should be. A community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and to the advancement of learning--such is the picture we have painted. Against this is raised a vivid scene to portray the iniquities of the required course--students frittering away their time in dead and uninteresting subjects at the expense of their true intellectual potentialities...
...fame, in the role of the peasant girl and Frederic March, versatile and capable actor, as the master who first makes for her a disgraceful and wretched existence and then remorsefully and penitently returns to "live again," the director of the picture found two unusual and convincing players to portray the moving story...
...advantage of an opportunity to go "back to the farm." Gathering about them a group of unemployed families, of the kind that is so pitifully a victim of the world chaos today, the pair set up a simplified self-subsisting community. It is strange that, in an attempt to portray the inevitable nobility of this American stock of which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from the intricacies of money and all the characteristics of complex existence, all the worldly belongings...
Hollywood has tried, through "Men in White" to portray the life of a hospital doctor, but now it has turned its attention to the feminine side of the question and has given as "Registered Nurse," now showing at the Paramount and Fenway theaters. It is the story of a woman whose husband goes insane after a serious automobile accident, and her relations with the rest of the hospital force where she installs herself after leading her husband...
Starting at the Metropolitan theatre on Friday is James Cagney's latest Warner production "Jimmy The Gent" with Bette Davis. The picture is from an original screen story written especially for Cagney and presents the popular star in the type of role the movie public want to see him portray. The story is based on a new angle of a "smart guy's" get rich quick scheme and is filled with laughs and thrilling situations. Supporting the two stars is a cast of prominent screen players headed by Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Hohl and Allen Dinchart...