Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Latest problem to confront Joseph P. Lyford '41, Chairman of the Lowell House Committee, is the choice of an appropriate name for the Bellboys' Spring Dance. The committee has already suggested a name for the affair, to which all dancers will be expected to come dressed as characters from the funnypapers. However, Lyford has rejected the name put forward on the grounds that it is "salacious and misleading." The suggested title was, "The Lowell House Comic Strip Dance...
...when the Balkan invasion takes place, it is a problem to decide who will do the invading. Italy will want to take over the rich plum of Hungary...
Meanwhile Rumania had a parallel problem. Rumanian police, acting on a tip supposedly supplied by the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, detained a fleet of dynamite carrying British barges in the Danube. Their supposed destiny: to blast the Iron Gate (the narrow gorge where the Danube cuts through the Carpathians) and block the channel to other barges carrying Rumanian oil to Germany...
...servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and Higher is really floored by the Servant Problem. As though that were not enough, the show goes in for haunted rooms, visitors from Iceland, phantom coachmen, hidden wine cellars, a butlers' ball. Otherwise there is virtually no plot...
Producer David O. Selznick has seen to it that Rebecca follows Daphne du Maurier's novel as faithfully as Gone With the Wind followed Margaret Mitchell's. So Director Hitchcock faced the usual problem of filming a wordy book -how to convey long-winded off-stage narrative background without slowing up the fast-moving camera. Out of this handicap Director Hitchcock makes his most exciting scenes. Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father...