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...Harvard Lampoon chose "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan as movie actress most unlikely to succeed. Said she in Hollywood, where she earns approximately $100,000 a year: "I wonder what those bozos think is success. ... I don't mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard. ... I met a Harvard man once, myself. It was a very sad evening...
...this time John Garfield knows exactly how to play the part of an arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime...
...even if University Hall succeeds, as seems likely now, in keeping the oomph girl from coming to the University Theatre, Warner Brothers is still seriously considering having the first showing of her new picture in a Boston theatre and thus cashing in on the national publicity which began with the Lampoon's innocent crack at Miss Sheridan a few weeks...
Only yesterday a Warner Brothers operative in Boston persuaded some undergraduates to steal a seal and plant it in a student's room, and tried to drag Ann Sheridan into the picture by saying, "This seal has more oomph than the Lampoon" to every reporter he could find...
...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 out of its way to approach a world as devoid of glamor and "oomph" as a clod of earth. Perhaps, after all, Hollywood and California are not as far apart as we have been made to believe...