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...What . . . Dana Andrews needs ... is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him" [TIME, Jan. 26]. And that from a movie reviewer whom certainly ought to know better...
...strong points of the Hanover squad are the breaststroke and backstroke. Captain Jay Urstadt and Chuck Solberg have the unusual distinction of being co-holders of the Dartmouth pool record in the former event, while Dana Jackson is top man in the latter, a race which has consistently fallen to Crimson opposition this season. If Captain Chuck Hoelzer can pull the breaststroke out of the fire at Hanover, the meet may well go to the visitors...
...look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked, "It was hardly possible to avoid ridicule in making the experiment...
Night Song (RKO Radio) takes the cake, or most of the frosting anyhow, for fancy plot. A rich San Francisco music lover (Merle Oberon) decides that what poor, blind, bitter Composer Dana Andrews needs, if he is ever to finish his concerto, is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him. She pretends to be blind and poor; Dana falls for her, and his genius starts boiling...
...bear to return to his blind sweetheart. Merle comes East and pretends to be a rich girl who loves music and can see. He falls for her again but this time neither of them is happy, for both feel that the blind girl is being treated shabbily. At last Dana's concerto is played in Carnegie Hall (with Artur Rubinstein at the piano); he hears the music the blind girl inspired, and the love interest gets straightened...