Word: ado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beacon Hill Theatre took a chance when it booked Ivy Films' two productions, "Much Ado About Studying" and "A Touch of the Times" to run with the 1949 Newspaper Guild Award winner, "The Quiet One." While the two College Films are an amazing achievement for a young, penny-pinched undergraduates group, they can hardly be expected to equal professional production standards. The audience expects just his, unfortunately, after kicking in 90 cents a head...
...Much Ado About Studying" is an amusing cross between a Robert, Benchley narrative and a Pete Smith short. It presents the difficulties of a freshman putting in a full evening of study. By professional standards, the photography is dull and the narrative is occasionally repetitive; by undergraduate standards, the short has local interest, includes several ingenious touches, and is 15 minutes of good entertainment...
Navy searchlights scanning the sky over the Beacon Hill Theatre at 8:30 p.m. tonight will herald the extra-Cambridge premiere of Ivy Films' feature-length fantasy, "A Touch of the Times," and the world premiere of its "Much Ado About Studying...
This will be the local moviemakers' third film. The first two, "A Touch of the Times" and "Much Ado About Studying," are opening a one week stand at the Beacon Hill Theatre March...
Theodore O. Oron '52, who plays the lead in "Much Ado About Studying," will direct the movie. He is now arranging for preliminary shooting at the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House and the West End Settlement House...