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...Laffmovie is one of a chain of three, the other two being in Baltimore and New York. Since the founding in 1943 the policy has remained pretty constant, "the more custard pies per reel the better." There have been deviations into more sophisticated comedy of the "Topper" type, "but," says the Boston advertising manager, "the kids didn't get the hang of the double entendre," And so, since the giants of the deadpan and the thrown pie are no more, the theater sticks to the oldies. "There are very few good new ones," the Laffmovie's spokesman says sorrowfully...
...Harvard-Yale grid clash will flash on the New Lecture Hall screen tonight at 7:45 o'clock under Athletic Association sponsorship. J.V. mentor Chief Boston, and Harry Jacunski, Varsity end coach, will make a running commentary on the 16mm silent reel of one hour and 15 minutes length...
Probably the most interesting reel on the program is a Pete Smith Specialty showing scenes from about a dozen of last year's football games. In the course of ten minutes, you can see Glenn Davis, Doe Blanchard, Bobby Layne, Charlie Trippi, and others in a series of spectacular runs and passes, nearly all of which go for seventy and eighty-yard touchdowns. Later on, in the newareel a Columbia end called Swiacki catches several passes from a prose position and beats Army. All in all, there is no grid lack at the U.T. this week...
...taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...
Towards the middle of the second reel, a few of the more interested members of the audience will discern a plot snuggling its way into the epic. It now appears that Robert Donat has been dancing altogether too many quadrilles with the queen, who is not incongruously impersonated by Binnie Barnes Donat, who happens to be playing an innocuous courtier named Cromwell, seems to have a prior claim, but after a few innocent bearhugs, he and Binnie go the way of all people Henry knew, and the latter, in the absence of a psychiatrist, marries again. But his spirit...