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...best Hearst style, Egan yesterday buffooned Bill Bingham as a master hypocrite and the H.A.A. as a prude but shrewd sweat-shop. The gist of Dave's theme revolves as follows: Bill Bingham was a ringer in the class of 1916, who after graduation betrayed his own caste by cutting the pay of athletes employed by the H.A.A. kitchen; Harvard has a lousy football team and will continue the same way as long as Bingham bends backward from professionalism...
...Hollywood appropriately furnishes the most extravagant miracle. When Producer Kolisher (a ringer for Sam Goldwyn) produces The Redeemer, God becomes interested, takes a hand in the last scenes. Robert Gary, the star, is ruined. Producer Kolisher, who knows how to please the public in spite of miracles, simply cuts God's contribution; critics eulogize his restraint...
...stars, and if the picture is merely a planetarium, it very definitely needs more power in the projector. The film is nothing more than a hodge-podge of supposedly funny scenes with a minimum of continuity. In the opening scene there appears with Myrna Loy a dead ringer for Taylor, but he soon passes out of the picture and never returns, even to explain his striking resemblance to the star. All in all, one cannot help concluding that the screwball tendency in comedy so easily overdone, has been carried a number of degrees...
...Washington from 1898 to 1931, Senate Librarian from 1931 to 1935, now assistant administrator of the archives of the U. S., 63-year-old James D. Preston is a familiar figure to Washingtonians. An accomplished woodworker, he has designed the sets for most recent Gridiron Club shows. A ringer for Neville Chamberlain, he impersonated the British Prime Minister in the last Gridiron show with no make-up except an umbrella. Last week Jim Preston's long and honorable career reached an appropriate climax. He accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood as technical adviser on Director Frank Capra...
...source of Broo line's troubles, according to Kerins, has been the surrender of all authority by the school committee to Caverly and Wilfred H. Ringer, principal of Brookline High...