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...Harvard movie, "To the Age that is Waiting," will be shown at cities along the route. It is narrated by President Pusey and Dean Bundy, with a script by novelist John P. Marquand, '15. The film includes shots of some of the "greats" of Harvard's past--Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant, professors Kittredge, Copeland, and Hooton, as well as "John the Orange Man" and the "goodies" who cleaned the student rooms. The film also shows the work of modern Harvard scholars and scientists, and the growing needs of the college...
...alltime favorites: On the Sunny Side of the Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between '23 and '34, some of them amplified by the famous, gravelly Armstrong voice. The album is marred by a hackneyed script, read by Satchmo, but it should give latter-day jazz fans, who know him only as the aging vaudevillian, an idea of what the shouting was about...
...script is marvelously clever without being even dull although the real interest of the film lies in its really top-notch acting. The art of lampooning without bitterness, cruelty or overstatement seems to be a peculiarly British talent and The Man in the White Suit is a good case in point...
Director Alexander Mackendrick, who also had a hand in writing the script, is a master of nuances with the camera and in picking English types with an air of reality-harried bureaucrats, laboratory assistants who help themselves to a wee drop from a retort now and then, and other pungent touches. Particularly amusing is the chemical apparatus that serves as a running gag throughout the film. Also sprightly is Benjamin Frenkel's music...
...bottle, the script continues, rose a genial genie who was carried to fame on an alcoholocaust of humor. ("I only drink to steady my nerves. And sometimes I get so steady I can't move.") He has long been known as "the comic's comic"a polite way of saying that he has never been widely popular with the public-and as a famous heckler-heckler. ("Come down to the pool in the morning, and I'll give you lessons in drowning...