Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schoolhouse on the Lot (by Joseph A. Fields & Jerome Chodorov; produced by Philip Dunning). Last week Hollywood landed on Broadway again. The new wrinkle this time was the kids in pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks...
Headlong as a paper chase, Schoolhouse on the Lot is just as full of false scents and wasted motion. Playwrights Fields & Chodorov have used about 33 of the famed 36 original plots, scrambled them into doodlebug farce, peppered them with gags. Underneath the roughhousing is a healthy contempt for the method in Hollywood's madness, a keen eye for skulduggery. But compared with a Once in a Lifetime or a Boy Meets Girl, Schoolhouse on the Lot is too loud, too loopy, too larruping...
...students spoke in last night's program, which was limited to Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores. Those who competed were chosen from a field of 44 original entrants, and their place in the order of speakers was chosen by lot...
Harvard is conceded about an even chance to take team honors at the N.C.A.A. events, with Ohio State and Michigan the biggest threats to Crimson supremacy. A lot will depend on the breaks. According to the times both have turned in this season, Hutter and Kendall ought to take between them the two sprints and the two "distance" races. If Captain-elect Rusty Greenhood can come through with a third in the dive to Ohio State's superb artists, Patnik and Patterson, the Crimson's point total will be bolstered. The medley team should place second to Princeton's American...
...President: I saw lots of people. I telephoned to a lot more, and I am continuing...