Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, without notice, they fired Wernette. Protested editors of the student paper Lobo: "Wernette is an educator and a scholar and evidently could not play politics. . . . The university is , on the bottom of the national credit list now. ... If something isn't done about our so-called 'Board of Regents,' our diplomas will be scholastically worth about as much as Confederate money...
...Were Meant for Me (20th Century-Fox). The life & works of jazz musicians offer material for a fine movie. Some day the moviemakers may take intelligent advantage of the fact. But You Were Meant for Me isn't even as good as it was six years ago, when Fox made a similar picture called Orchestra Wives...
...operation itself is a relatively minor event. Some donors have even admitted that they rather enjoyed it. Student entertainment, of course, isn't the prime object of the undertaking. But since at worst it is painless and quick, all the needling of the student body should be left to the doctors and not to the overworked crew of PBH campaigners...
...west coast nostalgia merchants responsible for this picture had only one thing in mind--an audience with perfect vision. Grade school mentality is no of consequence and a speaking knowledge of English isn't necessary, but the color-blind fan is sunk without a hope. "The Swordsman" is shot full of more color than a Tartan plaid, and its plot is every bit as checkered...
...cast had included Margaret O'Brien and the Andrews Sisters, and the photographing had been done in technicolor, the picture could have been billed as an extravaganza. As it is it isn't even colossal, but there are times when it activates a grudging smile, and once or twice even a warm chuckle. Levant's cynicism is two-dimensional: in his role and for his role. This, by all accounts, is a good thing, taking the mind off the pins and needles of a sleeping leg. Dan Dailey carries the burden of the show, and proves his worth...