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Branded (Paramount) takes place in a Technicolored Old West where men are men and Alan Ladd is Alan Ladd. More intricately and outlandishly plotted than most westerns, it differs from the usual Ladd movie by giving its hero a real reason for displaying his torso...
...Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
...ladies of the Hollywood Women's Press Club compared notes on their year's work, voted Loretta Young and Alan Ladd the "most cooperative stars," Olivia de Havilland and Robert Mitchum the "least cooperative...
...gang to attention by shouting "Time! Time!" If a fellow had his initials scratched on the arm of a deb (a girl member), no other Harp was allowed to touch her until she formally declared that she was through with him. Modeling themselves after such movie heroes as Alan Ladd ("The way he beats his women! He stomps them"), the Harps treated their debs with elaborately casual brutality...
Freshman Captain Bob Mello will have plenty of competition in the pole vault. Exeter has four men who can top 11 feet--Jerry Babb, Rhodes Hart, Charles Crawford, and co-Captain Jim Ladd. Mello should take first in this event, but the Crimson will be hard-pressed for second and third...