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...born 30 years ago in the Cuban colony in Tampa; she, of upper-class Cuban parents in Havana. Raul trouped as a child actor through Central and South America, picked up dance steps as he went along, eventually drifted to Havana where he met Eva at a party. She was a schoolgirl of 15. But Raul wanted her so much for a partner that he married her on the spot. A few months later they made their first big-time appearance at Miami's Roney-Plaza Hotel...
According to a recent vote of the Faculty, a student in good standing, whether in Freshman or upper-class standing, who fails to attend his last class before or his first college exercise after the Christmas recess will not necessarily be placed on probation at that time provided his record is and remains satisfactory. All absences before and after the holidays will, however, be especially carefully scrutinized by the Dean's Office, and if there is evidence of abuse, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken...
With all aspects planned as in previous years, the only noticeable change will be that caused by the inclusion of uniformed Freshmen of the Navy V-12 Unit. Attended by a few upper-class Cliffe-dwellers and members of the PBH Cabinet, the affair is primarily designed as a welcoming meeting for newcomers to the Cambridge scene...
...story tells how an upper-class Japanese family is affected by Japan's war on China and the U.S. By the time Cornell-educated Taro Seki (Tom Neal) returns to Japan from the U.S., he has become waywardly democratic. He has forgotten that Japs take off their shoes before entering their homes, and like to take their baths in the company of girls. Taro's father, wealthy Publisher Ryo Seki (J. Carroll Naish), shows him the error of his Western ways by explaining that Japan's eventual domination of the world is all that really counts...
...agonists are: mother-complicated Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis, looking 20 lb. overweight in flat heels and the inevitable spectacles) and Mrs. Henry Windle Vale ( Gladys Cooper, whose discreet, sociologically exact portrayal of the mother is the best thing in the film). Claude Rains, in a role reminiscent of upper-class New England's late Psycho-messiah Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, helps Charlotte escape from Boston and mother by taking a cruise. On shipboard Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid), a voyaging architect, takes the cure a step further by falling in love with Charlotte. By the time she gets home, Charlotte...