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Source material was abandoned when Hollywood set out to put "Tobacco Road" on celluloid. Gone entirely is the sociological message about hillbilly living conditions which has sent many metropolitan and rural audiences home with rotating intestines and a sincere wish that no one had even brought up the matter. Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet...
...assistants as attesting ground for new formations, plays and "promising-or-not-so" players from the Sophomore and Freshman classes--simulated actual game conditions as closely as possible. The referee and headlines man were present in their customary hospital white, and even the movie camera was clicking off a celluloid record of every play...
...tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button...
...main exhibition rooms housed: 1) a Disney animator at work, tracing the successive movements of animal arms and legs on an animation desk; 2) a model of the inside of a multiplane camera, showing how backgrounds and characters are photographed together from superimposed drawings on celluloid; 3) stage sets and sculptural models of Disney characters used by Disney draughtsmen as models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could...
Love Thy Neighbor (Paramount) is the radio quarrel of Comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen transposed to celluloid. On the screen, the comics resemble a pair of choleric Boston terriers-barking insults at each other. Sample gibes...