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...grisly Rock People are scarcely less gluttonous. In one spirited set-to over supper, Tumak, the picture's Tarzan-like hero (Victor Mature), is heaved off a cliff by Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...
Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...
Four professorships at the Harvard Law School have been filled the University announced today. The new appointments will go to Andrew J. Casner formerly associate professor Law at the University of Illinois. Paul A Freund, lecturer on Law Lon L Fuller visiting professor of Law from Duke University and Milten Katz '27, lecturer...
...pitching department, only one significant change may occur as a result of the trip. Lon Clay's two wins may put him in ahead of Charley Brackett as the Crimson's number two pitcher. Although losing against Columbia in extra innings, Captain Tom Healey showed himself to be rounding into good form by going the entire eleven frames...
Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie, and Betty Field as Mae, give an emotionally high-strung performance without ever falling into sentimentality or affectation. An exceptionally successful use of sound effects and close-ups occasionally stretches the nerves of the audience to the breaking point. But it is not these technical niceties, not even the heartfelt acting, which make "Of Mice And Men" a great picture. It is its bare-faced simplicity, its unpretentions conception of the relations between mind and man, between man and annual. For once, the movie industry has gone...