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Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has contributed a number of the prints now on display in the Theatre Room. Scenes shown vary from the crude efforts of the Mary Pickford-Charlie Chaplin era to extravaganzas like "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Here Comes the Fleet...
Love on the Run (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter...
Born to Dance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Put out for the holiday trade, this big, glittering musical has the air of a department store Christmas tree, wreathed with looping streamers of Cole Porter music and twinkling patches of young dancing. Proper in proportion and dazzle are its two large production packages: 1) Rolling Home sung by Ted (James Stewart), Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers) and Mush (Buddy Ebsen) with a chorus of sailors; 2) Swingin' the Jinx Away, the monumental finale, sung by everybody on top of the tree...
...conduct is characteristic. He has had an average of 84 during his four years, will undoubtedly be elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. His career could not have been more expertly designed to get him a good job after graduation if it had been arranged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kelley's current plan is to become a prep-school teacher and football coach. Said he last week as he left the field after his last and greatest game: "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over! I feel sort of funny. I guess I ought...
Tarzan Escapes (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) has one striking difference from its predecessor, Tarzan and His Mate, Mate Maureen O'Sullivan, who once frolicked through the jungle almost nude, now wears a tunic far more modest than most bathing suits. Despite the Legion of Decency, however, Tarzan's mate is still "Miss Jane Parker" to the whites who journey into Africa to find...