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With the doldrums of examinations once again upon us, it is a joy to find the Brattle Theatre reverting to its old policy of reviving interesting movies to erase the blight of Cambridge entertainment. The Humphrey Bogart festival, so missed last January, is back (though in truncated form) and a series of good Guinness reruns provide an admirable complement to Big Sleep and Maltese Falcon...
Exeter's diverse writers include Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...
...mangrove stood out black against Key Largo's garish blue sky," the novel begins, and the readers can almost see the ghost of Humphrey Bogart standing under it, whistling for Lauren Bacall. Josee goes off with a Chris-Craft skipper named Ricardo, then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows...
...pound clash, the Crimson's Bob Kolodney met Jon Bogart. The two wrestled to a draw in last year's meet, but this time Kolodney easily disposed of Bogart...
...released only last spring. As if this were not enough effrontery, the Brattle management has also planned to exhibit John Cassavetes' Shadows, which is a truly fine film, certainly, but the Telepix had it just two months ago. And, lowest blow of all, there will be no Bogart festival this reading period, so that hundreds of members of the Class of 1965 will go through their first exams in Cambridge without seeing Casablanca. Yes, freshmen, there was a Bogey, but he is dead...