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...School Forum speakers next semester will include Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Paul Blanshard, Anthony P. Nugent, Jr. '47 3L, president of the Forum, announced last night...
Anthony P. Nugent, Jr. '47 3L has been chosen president of the Law School Forum for 1950-51 it was announced last night. Other officers elected were: first vice-President, Paul S. Edelman '46-3L; second vice-President, Allen Klein 2L; Secretary, Raymond DeMember '48 2L; Treasurer, Sheldon Tabb...
...whole film. For some unaccountable reason the hair-raising possibilities of authentic history have been submerged in the muddled and often maudlin story of an overaged cavalry officer (John Wayne) in a U.S. Army outpost. More unaccountably, the paste-pot yarn was put together by two veteran scripters: Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings...
Gatsby tries hard, in some respects, to be a good movie. Its musical score, costumes and sets show painstaking research and a kind of wistful desire to be true to the novel. In individual scenes, in fact, Elliott Nugent's shrewd direction achieves an illusion of complete authenticity. But there are signs aplenty of heavyhanded tampering and cutting, and an unconscionable distortion of the novel's tone and intention. Like most second-rate copies, Gatsby captures much of the detail, but defaults on the grand design...
What is left of the story is carried rather heavily by Shirley Temple and Tom Drake, two undergraduates busily involved with love and misunderstandings. But most of the time Director Elliott Nugent, who has a special knack for this sort of thing, keeps his lens and sound track trained on Clifton Webb. By neatly trimming the tone and pace of the film to Webb's personal high-comedy style, he has kept the Belvedere formula fresh and amusing...