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...Hasty Pudding has once again served up a dish of varied entertainment, including the customary elements of political satire, night club patter, songs, romance struggling to be serious, and muscular chorus girls realizing that they're caricatures and making the most of it. The inevitable thrust at Yale is unusually satisfying, and some of the extraordinary political situations concocted by the authors yield flows of amusing cracks. An abundance of competent workmanship has gone into this show, "So Proudly We Hail," but it is lacking in the verve that would make it stand out in the history of Pudding theatricals...
...unusual glut of expensive motion pictures thrust forth by Hollywood in recent weeks,* cinemaudiences probably have the California tax collector to thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
Several times before Anthony Eden had taken this kind of thing in silence. Last week he acted, went from London to Birmingham, famed political stronghold of the Chamberlain family, and there made a speech to 2,500 young Conservative constituents of the Prime Minister which was a direct thrust at Neville Chamberlain...
...There's Always a Breeze" is a rollicking farce relying on a favorite comical incongruity, a mousy little man seeking notoriety. A teller in a bank, about five feet two inches tall and an excessively mild and unemotional disposition, suddenly finds fame thrust upon him, for as the supposed killer in defense of a beautiful woman, he is the idol of the nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents...
Sirs: . Looks to us like a thrust at the South...