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...Gaiety Girls (Alexander Korda) is a fresh-as-a-daisy English musical. It has sparkling lines, a logical story and a great show of versatility by England's gay, lantern-jawed Jack Hulbert, who is a good song-&-dance man, a better actor. Opposite him, blonde, healthy-looking Patricia Ellis has a better role than Hollywood ever gave her, does better than she ever did in Hollywood...
...first will be tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 o'clock by James C. Eaton '39, who will speak on "Travels in the Interior of North China," with lantern slides...
...theory that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over an oil lantern, thus starting the fire, seems to be of dubious historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Twentieth Century-Fox is privileged to rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...
...will discuss the differences in operating practice between American and British railways, illustrating his talk with lantern slides and motion pictures...
...that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music, movies, lantern slides. Most of the dialog runs between an omniscient Voice issuing from a loudspeaker and a Little Man who springs out of the audience and wants to know...