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...Boston's standards of morality are every bit as low as those of Hollywood!" declared Ted Lewis, the musical clown whose phrase, "Is everybody happy?" is known to followers of the stage and screen all over the country, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night at the Metropolitan Theatre. "The rot that is printed about the sin and bacchanalian revels of the screen stars is just evil publicity. I saw no more evidences of immorality or of unmorality while in California than you can find right here in this city...
Tigers are not the picture's only subject. Elephants are seen bowling over trees, bathing themselves, and at the climax closing in, a hundred strong, on a trio of tigers. For the first time India's rare and ugly one-horned rhinocereses are shown on the screen. Other animal principals are water-buffalo, swamp-deer, wild pigs, and a flock of vultures...
Those who like Marilyn Miller will find her every bit as attractive on the screen as on the stage. The star of "Rosalie" and "Sunny" dances better than ever and sings well enough to earn her the honor of having the best musical comedy voice of the present generation...
...stay in Poland is a series of moving pictures of Russia and Poland. Since he took them himself, he is very proud of them. He likes to run them off, with comments, for friends after dinner. Whenever any of his pretty daughters or smart sons appear on the screen, Economist Dewey cries out: "There's Bud! There's Suzette...
...tell us about your trip." A sandy-haired man starts answering her verbally, shows a cinema as he talks. At intervals the lights in the drawing-room are turned on. The narrative is broken with comments or explanations. Out of this simple framework is projected onto the little screen in the drawing-room?and onto the great screen in the theatres?as exciting a travel picture as ever was made...