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...good medley of all former spy-pictures can now be seen at the Uptown Theatre. The merits of "I Was a Spy" are numerous, the chief one being its realistic handling, its sincere action. The spy is, in the first place, a very ordinary very pretty country girl, and so there is no mixing of ball-room and bedroom diplomatics with firing-squad angelics. Madeleine Carroll shows that a Flemish variety of Mata Hari can play around with secret codes, drink-befuddled German officers, and counter-spies without help of a Circle-like reputation, and without confusing the issues...
...caught the tragedy of time in another way, but she has caught it just as surely. The settings for Berkeley Square, venturing out of doors where the stage could not go, are excellent. Stage coaches, rural England, eighteenth century London chimes and cobblestones; all are true and unexceptionable. The Uptown has provided Charlie Ruggles, in a comedy of marriage and philandery, as a light and agreeable breather...
Stage shows are no longer being shown at the Uptown...
...were anybody, you wouldn't bother to be here; if you were somebody, you wouldn't be here." This unspoken awareness partially ended a make-shift interview with Harland Dixon, playing in "Alice on Broadway" at the Uptown. Irrelevant recollections of G.B.S., "A.E.", and P. G. Wodehouse overtook the CRIMSON reporter, and for a number of reason she offered the purely hypocritical question as to what he might print...
University of Chicago's uptown neighbor, Northwestern, has not fared so well. Its teachers had their pay slashed 10% last year, an additional 10% this year. But none has been dismissed...