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Angel Island (by Bernie Angus; produced by George Abbott) lures a company of glinty-eyed weekenders to its shores with tales of buried treasure. Two murders are done, everybody suspects everybody else, while the audience keeps its eye on the shifty butler. Finally a character who might easily have been an innocent bystander is shot down as the culprit. A thriller with so pat a formula is usually expected to move posthaste off the Broadway boards, but with the guidance of respected Play-Picker George Francis Abbott, this one, blackouts, screams, rowdy humor and all, seems likely to remain...
Play Wizard Abbott has had uncommon success in the last few years pulling rabbits out of shabby theatrical hats and then turning them into ermine. Angel Island is the first produced playwriting attempt of Mrs. Howard Angus, wife of a Manhattan advertising executive. She is a frequent writer of magazine thrillers, but her chief avocation is etching, which she studied under Joseph Pennell. Mrs. Angus has called herself Bernie (short for Bernadine ) since she began to write for magazines. She believed editors were more receptive to male manuscripts. Satisfied with Angel Island, pleased that Hollywood...
...film appreciation course at New York University, now in its first year; 3) Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
...course, says Professor Abbott, is to provide students with "irreducible minimums" of information upon every phase of picture making and its history, thenceforth to direct individual study along lines of special interest...
...students were handpicked by Professor Abbott, include: two film critics; an illuminator of manuscripts: three C. C. N. Y. undergraduates; Dr. Hermogenes Garavito, up from Colombia to get tips on the foundation of a film industry by his government; a rich girl, and (Most Attentive Student) the Rev. John J. McClafferty, executive secretary of the National Legion of Decency...