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Seventy per cent of a candidate's grade depended on an intelligence test, which asked definitions of words like "complex" and posed simple problems in arithmetic and algebra. Balance of the examination, however, was an observation and memory test which would have taxed the discerning powers of a Philo Vance...
...Dragon Murder Case (First National), fifth novel by S. S. Van Dine to be translated into cinema, shows Detective Philo Vance airily investigating the demise of a young man who dives into a swimming pool and fails to come up. Since the young man's host, a Mr. Stamm, is a retired explorer and practicing piscatorialist, there are several possible explanations. The young man may have been swallowed by a dragon, drowned by accident or bored to death by Mr. Stamm's tropical fish. Detective Vance proves that none of these hypotheses is correct. Stamm has dressed himself...
...earlier Vance cinemas, William Powell has been Philo. Since Powell is now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vance this time is impersonated by Warren William. His performance as a detective is superior to his impersonation of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra but none of the ingredients of The Dragon Murder Case is sufficient to make the picture a puzzle or a shocker. Typical shot: Eugene Pallette, who, no matter who plays Vance, always appears as Vance's stupid police foil, muttering his catch line: "My experience as a criminologist teaches me to suppose...
...knows just where the Colossus of Rhodes stood, that great bronze statue once spanning the harbor mouth which was one of Philo of Byzantium's Seven Wonders of the World. It was built by Charles of Lindus in 280 B. c., crashed in an earthquake 56 years later. For 880 years bronze fragments of it littered the harbor of Rhodes. Finally in 656 A. D. the tidy Saracens after capturing the island sold the remnants to a junk dealer, who carted them away on 900 camels...
Rehearsals for the play, now in progress, are under the direction of Frederick G. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking. Members of the cast are Robert Clement '32, John G. Patterson '35, Shipherd Robinson '36, Richard Morgan, IV '36, Philo F. Willetts '36, J. T. Mendenhall '35, Thomas E. Naughton '34, William P. Rockwell '35, Robert S. Hormell '35, and William H. Jeffreys...