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Four examples of early American motion picture comedy will be shown tonight at the first session of the Harvard Film Society's current season. Works of Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Edwin S. Porter are planned for the performance at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...
...American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style by James T. Vail, the Primavera stamp, larger than the average, was well worth the 3? the Post Office asked...
...little roaches are feasting in somebody's kitchen when the human beings surprise them and there is tragedy. The humans go away in triumph, thinking they have killed every little cockroach. But one little roach peeps out and another and another. Because cockroaches will go on forever . . . unfortunately...
...making One Million B. C. Directors Hal Roach & Hal Roach Jr. have thrown science to the winds that howl through arid Fire Valley, Nev. where most of the thriller was filmed. They rely for red-blooded entertainment on such spectacles as a giant lizard devouring a man, a tapir-like monster ingesting a python, a battle royal between two dinosaurs...