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With a fast moving script of short episodes tied together by the announcer's comment, "Adventures In Education" will stress a new technique devoted especially to entertainment. Although describing the work of the Undergraduate Faculty, the program is really a play in itself along the lines of "The March of Time." Script writing and direction are in the hands of Lawrence Lader, '41, and Lincoln Bloomfield '41, while the east includes Raymond Dennett, Gradoste Secretary of Brooks House, Langdon Burwell '41, John Kessler, '42, Lader and Bloom field...
...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...
...carried out and combined with a high quality of acting and vivid sets, to finish off the show, like the Emperor himself, in fine fashion. There were times, however, when the pace lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels go to Edwin Pettet who gave the part of Smithers zest that it has seldom had before...
...battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...
...went to Paramount to borrow Bing Crosby. Paramount would not lend Crosby, hired Producer Rogers instead. He auditioned 1,583 juvenile performers. Two of the hopefuls, a midget and a little girl who despite her mother's promptings stolidly refused to open her mouth, were incorporated into the script...