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Private Worlds (Paramount). Said Ernst Lubitsch, onetime director and now Paramount's new production chief, last fortnight: "Eight hundred motion pictures are produced in Hollywood each year. That means that some one must strive to contrive to have the boy meet the girl in a different way than 799 others have related it. Reduced to elementals, that is our problem." If it did nothing else, Private Worlds would be notable for the solution which it offers to the perplexity which caused Producer Lubitsch to forget his grammar. The boy and the girl meet in an insane asylum where...
...improving the Negroes' lot. Following suit, Mayor LaGuardia last week appointed a similar committee composed of prominent Negroes like Poet Countee Cullen and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, such professional white committeemen as Trustee William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee Institute, Lawyers Morris Ernst and Arthur Garfield Hays...
Monday's editorial proclaims itself in favor of toleration for both Fascism and Communism. Unfortunately it never works out that way. We have yet to see the CRIMSON defending a radical, as it did Professor Gini and Ernst Hanfstaengl, merely because it wished to preserve Harvard's liberalism. We notice that there are no faculty members giving the Communist position, as there are ones defending Fascism. The best case in point was the expulsion of Professor Laski from the faculty some time ago because he was too radical...
...Director Ernst Lubitsch, the beady-eyed, loquacious, stocky German-Jew whose long list of successes ending with The Merry Widow have made him one of the five most famed cinema directors in the world, last week got a new job: production chief at Paramount. Never before in the history of the industry has so spectacular a director been considered sufficiently responsible to run a major studio. The appointment caused Hollywood to rattle with astonishment. Director Lubitsch caustically suggested that the shock was due to the fact that he is a picturemaker not a banker, got to work on conference with...
...ushers are to be Alfred C. Butter-field '37, Robert E. Eichler '36, Richard C. Ernst '36, Shaun Kelley '36, Thomas E. Marston 2G., Branford P. Millar '35, Charles E. Pettee '35, Richard S. Salant '35, Douglas C. Scott '36, Robert E. Simon, Jr. '35, Roy W. Winsauer...