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Moving pictures of last summer's naval R. O. T. C. cruises will be shown at the new School of Geography on Monday and Tuesday at 3.15 o'clock. They portray the voyage of the Harvard Juniors on the destroyer U. S. S. Tillman from Boston to Bermuda, and the trip of the Sophomores and Freshmen of Harvard, Georgia Tech., North-western, and Yale from Boston to Halifax and Norfolk on the U. S. S. Arkansas; admission is free to all members of the University...
...seen have three regrettable characteristics. The first is an irritating slowness of action, a habit of dragging out all scenes to the end and beyond. The director does not seem to trust the audience to understand what is going on merely by a series of flashes. He will portray a man crossing a field, not as in an American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive, registering "emotion," what Dr. Cannon calls...
...effort to show how innocent by-standers can be drawn into criminal proceedings, the director achieved a picture of family life which was undeniably real. Frances Starr and Grant Mitchell portray the parents with a naturalness which is extremely gratifying. The acting of Miss Starr where she is frantic for the welfare of her family deserves nothing but praise, and whereas Charles (Chic) Sales, who specialized as the grandfather, was guilty of exaggeration, Walter Huston played the prosecutor with more feeling than is usual in the case of screenland officials. "The Star Witness", in spite of occasional lapses, is sincere...
Laughing Sinners was started six months ago, later scrapped and remade. As a result Joan Crawford, whose duty it is to portray the indecisions of the salesman's playmate, appears as a brunette in some sequences, a blonde in others. In almost all of them she acts well and makes her dilemma seem both plausible and pathetic. Actor Hamilton is a little too unctuous as the salesman. Actor Gable, hitherto an impersonator of hard-boiled characters, seems slightly puzzled to find himself banging a Salvation Army drum...
...blessed with a double title, "Mondays at 9" or "Pedagogues on Parade." The sketches of the aforementioned pedagogues, which have become familiarized to thousands of Lampoon readers in their appearance on the center spread pages of the humorous magazine, are the work of Pickhardt. In most cases they portray the salient topographical outlines of the professors subjected to treatment, as well as one or two prominent professorial characteristics inherent in the poseur...