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...struck at the crumbling conspiracy of silence about syphilis. The Federal Theatre Project presented a propaganda play on the subject called Spirochete. Tracing the history of the disease and its cure from 1493 to 1937, boldly flashing microscopic plates showing the spirochete, or spiral syphilis germ, on a screen, the play for the most part proved good theatre, evoked a magnificent first-night response...
...private life Lady Peel, Canadian-born widow of a British peer, Actress Lillie is, at 40, the brittle darling of the English-speaking stage for her merciless take-offs of less sophisticated darlings. Her first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons...
...Jezebel," which brought Bette Davis to the screen of the University yesterday, is one of those rare pictures which combine genuine acting with setting and photography worthy of it. Miss Davis is again called upon to play a complex, not wholly agreeable, personality, and again she responds with a sensitive, understanding portrayal. Although the supporting cast, particularly George Brent, are especially fine, Miss Davis captures attention throughout; leaving, one can think only of Jezebel and the curious psychological trait that made her do evil almost against her will, and injure those she loved...
...Lillie. The action spirals about the efforts of Lorelei Dodge-Blodgett (Miss Lillie) and Bill Rensem (Bing Crosby) to wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera. Bing Crosby provides an innocuous background, giving repeated versions of "On the Sentimental Side," but the laurels belong to Andy Devine, who as Policeman O'Roon with boisterous diligence, stamps on crime...
Before fifteen hundred cheering and jeering Yardlings, celebrities of stage and screen, headed by the original fan and bubble dancer, Sally Rand, did their part to support the 1938 Freshman Smoker celebration...