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...complete, timed-to-the-second radio show can be pieced together by matching approved takes just as Hollywood film editors make feature films from the results of many days of takes and retakes. Expert editors and retouchers with Millertape can eliminate single words, can even correct lisps and other lingual mishaps...
...first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons. But to many cinemagoers her primping, shimmy-shaking travesty on the leather-lunged school of hot-cha singing may seem less a parody than an amateur-hour attempt at something Ethel Merman can do much...
...remedy lies not, as Mr. Morawetz implies, in relegating lingual preparation to the institutions of higher learning, but in a more efficient, more satisfactory teaching method in the secondary schools. Colleges are dependent upon preparatory institutions. Collegiate education has advanced as far as is possible, and it must now await the further development of its younger sister. What the college desires now in a more mature, intelligent, self reliant freshman, not a boy efficiently drilled in a few things, lacking all mental initiative...
WHOOPEE?Eddie Cantor still at his best as the world's most lingual Jewisl Indian...
...present language requirements, which cause "reading knowledge" to be interpreted as the result of two years of passing work in a language in college, in courses which are necessarily elementary and non-cultural, and generally boring. As long as preparatory schools fail to cover the ground of elementary lingual preparation, and as long as the College retains its demand for "reading knowledge" of this sort, elementary language courses will continue to eat into student time. Alteration in the two conditions must go hand in hand, but the College has the power to take the first step by making its entrance...