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Fortunately, no students were in the three-story wooden "rat-house" at the time, although normally 17 socially prominent upperclassmen and a graduate student proctor occupy it. Most of the students, it was said, were out of town on just another weekend...
Married. Wayne Morris (real name: Bert De Wayne Morris Jr.), 24, cinemactor (Kid Galahad, Valley of the Giants, Brother Rat); and Leonore ("Bubbles") Schinasi, 18. step-daughter of a late millionaire Manhattan tobacco importer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...emphasis to indicate their location on his own person, and his eyes begin to sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost at the age of 60, when he married...
...Brother Rat" and "Ferdinand the Bull" are currently fighting for honors at the University, with "Torchy Gets Her Man" a poor third. For those who have not seen "Brother Rat" on the stage, the screen version is top notch entertainment; for those who have, the movie is merely amusing. The lines are good, the plot, based on the complexities of life at the Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades...
Although Apley, Claverly, the residential part of Dudley, Little and the various "rat houses" harbor many who intentionally dodge the House Plan, these dormitories are admittedly reserved for the House overflow each year. For the Plan to be athletically complete, therefore, some provision must be made for their residents...