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Like its predecessors, this one starts off with George Dwight (Roger Pryor) frantically trying to put together a musi-comedy which displays a constant tendency to fall apart. Rival producers (the "Hobarts") try to buy the controlling interest. The leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected...
...drains! First to notice it is not any inhabitant of the house but the Dean's nephew, young Christopher, who as an architect takes an interest in such things. He also takes an interest in naïve young Emily Chilvester, a more academic interest in Invalid Sister Lilian's mystical drawings...
When Christopher kisses Emily she falls in love with him and is promptly expelled from the house by her father. When she learns that men betray she rushes off to drown herself, but Invalid Lilian makes a huge last effort and saves her, at the cost of her own life. Old Mr. Chilvester takes Emily back again. Her true Chilvester blood coming out at last, Emily stands shoulder to shoulder with her parent while he fights a hopelessly losing struggle against the combined forces of society. His efforts sap the old man; merciful death comes for him before he realizes...
...Gerstein 3L., Harold Winer '34, S. L. Weker '34, B. P. Feins '33, Joseph Neyer '34, J. A. Altman 2L., K. J. Pezrow '35, Melvin Levy '36, William Maltzman '35, and E. D. Canter '35. The Radcliffe cast is as follows: Helen Lewis, Hoster Blatt, Doris Cohen, Tina Jankelson, Lilian Grossman, Sarah Sevall, Frances Mover, Ruth Frankel, Lilian Shapiro, and Florence Heller...
...mock trial to raise funds for King Edward's Hospital Fund, Lord Riddell, newspaper proprietor, in a white top hat, with a bottle of port at his elbow, sat in judgment upon Actresses Gladys Cooper, Viola Tree, Lilian Braithwaite and Elizabeth Pollock, whom Author John Drinkwater, as prosecutor, sought to convict of "practicing undue domesticity and so neglecting their...