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...opulence. He bought the original manuscript, gave it to Scenarist Robert Riskin to rework, devised one of the most magnificent sets in cinema history. He had the good judgment to leave the story almost exactly as it was written and the skill to match Author Hilton's verbal talent with pictorial subtlety. After this week's opening, most critics held Lost Horizon as fine a cinema as it is a book. Its one flaw is Director Capra's one major deviation from the novel-a happy ending...
...Freshman Union committee will sponsor an Amateur Show on Wednesday, March 16, to be held in the dining room of the Union at 8:30 o'clock. Monologues, close harmony, and all talent of any entertainment value will be welcomed. The floor will be encouraged to participate also...
...Hurley, brother of the former Postmaster and present State Treasuer, William K. Hurley, works the principals in the pudding hard each afternoon, because talent scouts for the movies and stage are coming up to watch the play. Aroused by the polished entertainment of last year's "The Lid's Off"' they will be looking for men like John Davis Lodge, male load in the 1926 production and currently in Hollywood. One player has already been offered screen tests, while tunes such as "Someday" and "Come Across" are often heard in night clubs and radio programs...
...three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with all three Barrymores, Pauline Lord, and John Drew. His greatest success as a free-lance director were "The Firebrand"' which ran two years, and an operetta, "The Desert Song"' which indicated his talent for musicals...
...jumped on the movie bandwagon and directed over one hundred short talkies for Warner Brothers. A 5800 mile drive through the stock theatres of New England last summer ended two years of talent scouting for Twentieth Century - Fox, and after whipping "Come Across" into shape he will head straight for Hollywood. When he took "Anna Christie" to London in 1923 he picked up a lot of information about the English stage which will be put to use in the trans-oceanic episodes of the Pudding show...