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...Hero of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen...
...Seventeen (Paramount). In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they...
...flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work out of his dilemma on his own. Result: by deftly making youth's callow crisis also a crisis of adult intelligence, Director Louis King and Producer Stuart...
After three years of preliminary work on a new Chinese-English Dictionary, the Harvard-Yenching Institute has now assembled in Boylston hall a working collection of more than 2,000,000 cards containing entries from seventeen of the most important Chinese dictionaries...
...very cleverly arranged with his typical trick of using his brass section under volume, but with eight part harmony. Only trouble is that the very size and pretentiousness of the arrangement kills it. While his rhythm section is fair, it isn't up to the job of pushing a seventeen piece white band so that it "kicks" the way a good colored band does...