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...popular conception of operatic stars. One of the most pleasing phases of the entertainment is the manner in which the star renders the songs which are requisite for the creation of the musical atmosphere. Second in merit stands Francis Compton who depicted with vigor the role of the fatuous finance...
...will eventually be spent on the project. Harvard undergraduates, who, after all, are more intimately concerned with the house plan than any one else, rose grandly in rebellion, and there ensued an orgy of hoots, sneezes and jeers in student publications, until all gestures of opposition were rendered somewhat fatuous by the factual presence and functioning of the new house units themselves...
...Careless Age (First National). Masked by the fatuous title-on the stage Diversion, a play by John Van Druten-is a compact and legitimately dramatic study of adolescent love. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. acts a young medical student, ambitious son of a London doctor, who on a holiday meets an experienced and beautiful woman of light fancy. Back in London she tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement...
Freddy is a blinking, fatuous caretaker on the Surrey estate of one Gommery who is busy trying to seduce a London actress. This leaves Mrs. Gommery idle, repressed. She would like to have Caretaker Freddy take care of her. Frightened, as an excuse for leaving, he invents for himself a-mistress in London to whom he must repair. By chance he selects the name of Mr. Gommery's actress. This mock disclosure precipitates an extremely dull, English-accented farce in the P. G. Wodehouse manner but without the Wodehumor. C. Stafford Dickens is playwright and Gommery. Raymond Walburn...
...long been axiomatic that for fatuous stupidity the Advocate is a rare lit'ry nonesuch, but for sour and futile impertinence the current issue hasn't even a competitor. There seems to be such an effluvium of decomposition about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...