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...drawing of the cartoons is a generally good approximation of the real thing-"Little Orpheum Anne," "Supergoon"-and, once or twice, is even funny in itself. But the humor of the dialogue and the situations is what tells, and it is forced, hoary, and sometimes private. It seems to depend sololy on the type of wit referred to in the first sentence: the humor of the iconoclast. Now, there's no one who enjoys more than I the prospect of Orphan Annie getting her due, which, in this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman...
...those who wish to be nostalgic in a slightly different vein, the Exeter theater has brought back Goodbye Mr. Chips, which has its last showing tonight. Loew's State and Orpheum are showing a documentary of the U. S. Navy's activities in the Antarctic, rendered glamorous by Lieutenants Robert Taylor and Van Heflin. Much of the film, incidentally, was photographed by Hugh Foster '50 while he was on duty with a Navy communications unit...
Hugh K. Foster '50 photographed 1,500 feet of the 6,000-foot film that opened yesterday at Loew's State and Orpheum theaters in Boston...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum...
...biggest cash deal in Hollywood history was closed last week exactly as prescribed by the script. Howard Hughes gave an $8,825,690 check to Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium for its 929,020 shares of stock (24%)-and control-of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, May 10). (Atlas still kept an interest in RKO by its ownership of warrants to buy some 300,000 shares of stock.) Despite ample warnings of the change, RKO's staff got so jittery over their new boss that RKO President Nathaniel Peter Rathvon had to pour out soothing syrup: "Mr. Hughes...