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...Evoke, to Develop. "The biggest job in the Army is to knock the complacency out of young officers and men, to make them realize that only by dint of their greatest effort, their utmost unselfishness, their infinite pains, and their capacity for self-sacrifice . . . will victory be attained. We must arouse in them the spirit of the offensive...
Virginia Bruce is still anemic despite her long rest from film activity, and what acting she does is equally pale. The leading man isn't worth notice, and Costello has, by dint of sheer bulk, crowded Abbott almost off the screen. Briefly, it's Abbott and Costello slightly worse than usual, funny or nauseating, according to your taste. Unconfirmed rumors from Universal's lot say that Dottie Lamour can have her old job back now, while June Priesser must step out and let the comedians go ahead with a new co-ed campus picture to be entitled, "Sweater...
With well over 200 volunteers signing up to spend their weekend thus fruitfully employed, Andrew E. Rice '43, who was in charge of the episode, found that there was a surplus of workers that threatened to paralyze the available transportation system and inundate the orchard. Only by dint of frantic last-minute telephone calls did he discourage some of the would be patriots and reduce the party to a manageable figure...
...dint of some ingenious rewriting, and considerable skating on thin ice, Hollywood has produced a version of Kings Row which retains that novel's main outlines without arousing the censors. This is no mean feat, since the book bore down on sadism, incest and assorted abnormalities so heavily that its liberal admixture of seduction seemed a welcome note of normalcy. Although the grislier aspects have been glossed over prettily in deference to the family trade, the picture is still moderately worth-while entertainment...
...combination of play and theatre is good, the outlook for fall dramatics is promising. Yet there is often a slip between the selection of a play and its production. Only if the Dramatic Club-- by dint of hard work--can achieve the success it expects, should the students, upon whose support the club depends, gather together and chorus, "Good for the Gander...