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...demands more continuity of plot than Hollywood Party contains; that M-G-M instead of assigning a director to supervise the whole production, had bits made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps...
...They and all the rats of their generations were as big, sleek and fertile as well-fed oldsters. To show people who would not believe their ears, Dr. Rowntree brought two perforated cardboard boxes to a meeting of the Philadelphia County Medical Society last week. Each box contained a litter of four-day-old rats. In one, the pink, hairless, blind, toothless, throbbing blobs were children of ordinary rats. In the other thymized youngsters of precisely the same age frisked about bright-eyed, white and toothy. If boys and girls were in a similar thymic state, they might be fully...
...clean 'em up and they dirty 'em again."-TIME, March 26). Head of the Clean City Committee is Mrs. Herbert Shipman. lively widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York. Not to be outdone by the O. C. A., Mrs. Snipman has now written a ballet, Litter in the Street, presented last week in Town Hall as the feature of a Children's Spring Festival. Children in Daisy Blau's Dance Group pretended to be street dirt while two pianos played jazzy music by Will Irwin, and Howard Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman...
newly washed with rain. We want litter cans on every block...
...deserted mansion. But Davis is not true to the romance of "swords and roses"; he fumbles a little psychopathology into the plot, and his play quavers ridiculously for two acts between Eugene O'Neill and a minstrel show. At the last the dying hero is borne out on a litter, while an offstage chorus chants "Oh, Lord, Ah'm comin'" or some like...