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...exterminated 3,000,000 peasants by famine, will go for a good cry over the hardships of the Okies. But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. For The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book. It is certainly the best picture Darryl F. Zanuck has produced or Nunnally Johnson scripted. It would be the best John Ford had directed if he had not already made The Informer...
...Mickey Rooney's gargoyle and exhibitionist extraordinary. True to form, Rooney has mugged and hogged his way through his latest picture. "Babes in Arms," but what is not in the least true to form, he's good! With only Judy Carland and Charles Winninger to help him drag a so-so cast through the script, he has taken the show on his own Napoleonic shoulders and carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction...
...stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when she saw the film for the first time: "I didn't believe I could act so-so nastily...
Returning from their Spring Vacation trip with a so-so record, the Harvard Rugby team will face Nassau College on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The game will be preceded by a game between the second teams of the two Colleges...
...polo team will ride into the ring tonight with a so-so record. They have again won the "A" League title, played for among teams of this vicinity, but in his most important intercollegiate clashes, Captain Palmer's team have dropped decisions to West Point and Yale, and neither of them were by very close scores. But the them got off to a slow start because the ring in the Armory was torn up, and they hope to make a better showing against the Elis tonight than they did last Saturday on the small New Haven ring. In the Armory...