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...Leave (Paramount). The only change besides the title which the producers have made in Sir James Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals is the suggestion that the gaunt soldier whom a scrubwoman pretends is her son and takes pride in as a hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting sons...
Harvard, the individual, living in ancient tradition, yet always young: Yale, the realist and man of action, the Crimson and the Blue, drawn together, from all parts of a nation, from all over the world; intermingling, old rivals and older friends...
...Realist: Then let her cut down on this expense and dress more simply...
...Realist: I defy you to prove it. A fellow likes a girl for her own sake and not for a lot of glad rags...
...this the realist has no answer except a sneer, or if he is ultra sophisticated, a gentle smile accompanied by the formation of a perfect ring of smoke...