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Written around a theme as modern as it is pertinent, "Dark Victory," currently at the Metropolitan, is a powerful production, well adapted to Bette Davis' peculiar talent for portraying the neurotic. As the Long Island society girl who discovers a meaning in life just before hers is snuffed out, Miss Davis gives a brilliant and convincing performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize...
Hollywood in making a raid on the ivory tower for its writing talent with officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appealing to Harvard to name its best writers in the Senior clean and offering two of them $50 a week apprentice contracts, according to reports received here...
...extent of M.G.M.'s invasion of the collegiate field in its search for talent is not known, but it is believed that this University does not enjoy a monopoly of the opportunities...
...publicity has been given to the talent hunt, and the film company is said not to want a swarm of applicants for the jobs, having definite ideas in advance of the type of college graduate wanted...
...exceptionally large group of Varsity and Freshman talent spent the vacation pounding the cinders. As a result the squad is in excellent shape for this time of year, except for Ros Brayton, miler, who got soaked in the eye with a shuttlecock while playing badminton; Bob Partlow, Jump artist, who still has a bad foot; and Coach Mikkola, who has a whing-ding of a cold...