Word: pourrie
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...Hollywood's sure-fire formula for money-making movies. It has tossed together a bunch of old song favorites, a couple of snappy new tunes, some lavish dance spectacles, a hoofer who can hoof, and a singer who can sing. The result is "Lady Be Good," a sizzling pot-pourri of entertainment which tops anything in its line that has been turned out since Ann Sheridan became the sweetheart of the Harvard Lampoon...
...Harvard Advocate's Christmas present this year is an issue devoted to the poetry of Wallace Stevens, but not just to the poetry mind you, but to a pot-pourri of criticism that seems to say, "There. You're a damn fool if you don't like...
...fill out the bill, a variety of ten-minute side-kicks are shown. They include a nifty Donald Duck and some sad items on stunt-men and sealions. Also a weird pot-pourri on the history of the Academy Award, which gives tid-bits from the cinematic wows since '28. It doesn't seem to prove much, but it's interesting...
...erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable is he who finds all women unclassifiable and all colleges a pot-pourri of femininity...
...competing with the young folk and of out-smarting them. In the course of events he shows what a chivalrous fellow he is by rescuing from a sharper the children of his old rival thereby uniting the firms and making peace and prosperity the lot of all. The pot-pourri contains a bit of romance, a bit of humor, and a lot of George Arliss. In Russia it will be correctly appraised as capitalistic propaganda, but the men who made it never thought of that, nor had they ever heard that there is in the cinema an art which...