Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business in some years, but the introduction of the obvious goes a long way toward making it a boring and dissatisfying film. Claudette Colbert deserves a much better part. The only merit of the stage-show is a "brother-sister" dancing team which is excellent. The news reel is slightly below its usual performance...
...manly American racing-car type of picture, and entered the realm of situation comeday, he is of much more value as a source of entertainment. While not nearly approaching the cleverness of his latest picture, "Lovin' the Ladies", the "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is sufficiently worthwhile. Counting the news-reel, the University's present bill is the best-balanced in several months...
...mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm is the only thing that gets it over, but it is obvious at times that she is uneasy too, especially at the moment when she has to drop her habitual air of dignified seductiveness to dance a tap routine in tights...
...ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation but of the same breadth of conception. Author Dos Passos' book sets a new mark for U. S. novelists to shoot...
...Devanter, represented by A. F. Reel 2L and B. P. Cooper 2L defeated Cardozo, represented by Nathaniel Janes 2L and B. M. Zeigler 2L, 6 1-3 to 5 2-3, on February 10. Judges were Professor James M. Landis, R. Ammi Cutter, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, and Summer H. Babcock...