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...Senator Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), a julep-slupping burlesque of a Southern politico, a latter-day Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
...Joke, Son (Eagle-Lion) brings radio's unreconstructible Senator Claghorn (Kenny Delmar) to the screen. The movie shows how he became a Senator despite his wife (Una Merkel), who also ran, and a bunch of Yankee-accented political gangsters. The Claghorn delivery rings out as nobly as the Voice of Bugle Ann. Visually the Senator is not so convincing, and his vehicle grates and clatters like loose buggy tires on a concrete pike...
Because of the complications of war credits, no definite compilation has yet been made as to what academic class these men will be assigned. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, has stated that those classified as Freshmen will get the same sort of reception as any normal entering class...
Attendance will be required of the more than 500 University undergraduates, who have not as yet chosen their fields of concentration, at a special meeting in the New Lecture Hall Saturday at 9 o'clock, it was announced by Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshman, yesterday...
...TIME erred; Delmar's award was for being the father who "made the biggest strides to stardom in one year...