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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS
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MOTION * PICTURE * REVIEWS
Published monthly by
THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB
LOS ANGELES BRANCH
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
Mrs. Palmer Cook, General-Co-Chairman Mrs. John Vruwink, General Co-Chairman Mrs. Chester A. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. Francis Poyas, Subscription Chairman Cooperating Branches
Long Beach Glendale Santa Monica Whittier
EDITORS
Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Ali.en Davis Mrs. George Ryall Mrs. John Vruwink Address all communications to
The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California
10c Per Copy $1.00 Per Year
Vol. Xm OCTOBER, 1939 No. 10
Copyright 1939 by Women's University Club of Los Angeles
ANNOUNCEMENT
Parents of young children will rejoice to hear that the Extension Division of the University of California is again showing carefully selected pictures at Royce Hall Auditorium on Saturday afternoons throughout October, November and December. The admission is 15c — 2 for 25c — for children; adults 25c.
These programs were very popular last year, the attendance being from 400 to 1,600.
The pictures are preceded by one-half hour organ music by Mr. Harry Q. Mills. The musical selections are particularly chosen from the best composers with regard to their interest for a young audience.
We understand that Occidental College is beginning a similar series this year.
FEATURE FILMS
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Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, Anne Nagel, Victor Jory, Larry Crabbe, El Brendel, Hally Chester, Wm. Benedict, David Gorcey, Harris Berger. Direction by Arthur Lubin. Universal.
Here is another film exploiting the “Dead End” gang and dealing with the problem of making good citizens out of boys who have already become petty thieves and East Side toughs. Billy Hallop, as Jimmy Hogan, is reformed when a kindly man puts him to work as a messenger boy. The main idea is a laudable one upon which to build a motion picture, but this particular film strikes
too many false notes in its handling of the material and the result is unpleasant rather than constructive.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
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Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas, Forbes Murray, Frank Baker, Eddie Borden, Gerald Rogers. Screen play by Charles Rogers, Felix Adler and Harry Langdon. Direction by Alfred Goulding. Musical score by Marvin Hatley. Hal Roach.
As in former Laurel and Hardy films, the plot of this ironical farce-comedy is incon