Variety (Aug 1929)

18 VARIETY F I LM REVIEWS Wednesday, August 28, 1929 Talking Shorts V U RRAY and. OAK LAN D VITAPHONE N<»^ 849 10 lyiin's,;: C.6m^dy -\ Warherti, New.YofIc John T. Murray and Viviian- Oak land, . prevlciiisiy and^. eurrentVy in vaudeville, were both In silent pic- tures for "a couple, of'yearSj'so should come to straight picture- hpUses. as familiar personalities, vuhUke the great number of canned act^ in shCrts; This is a transcript: of the-couple's present vaude turn. Jt ppens'as a satirical skit on mystery, plays -with exaggeration -lind, repetttlbh the comedy method; Quite: a few gig- gles and brisk'ill pace.. Follows an 1882 style; concert hall duet, familiar hokie, biit; well, done and contlnuihs' the laughs.. ^ In toto,. a bright and diverting Interlude that ^ibiild please tnost everywhere!. :Jjand. . WILLIE and EUGENE HOWARD "My People" (Dramatic) : VITAFHONE No. 750-1 ; 17 M.ins.? Five Sd^nes Mark Strand* Nevw York ^ This is the most 'anubjtloils of the; Howard brothers', series ; of . talking shorts for Warner BroSi It I^/some-: wha:t of a playlet, .starting In Ilussia with a pogrom beating a ted trail Into the promised land. iWillie arid Eugene are in chaVacteristic vl^uss^ smocks and turbans,, ad libbing In Yiddish, In a- dbme&tic scene,,., with the mother of the. household; pray- ing ov6r the secular candelabra. In America, Willie-is «u click in the Russian Bea,r, an authentic repro- ductlon of that 2d aVenue nite- club on the east side, wh^riEi: he does "The Volga Boatmiin" song to.. a sym- pathetic audience. Uptown, Eu- gene Is registering at the Hlgh^Hat. Club with "Blue .Grass'- (one. of their numbers out of . Vgcandals" last year) ^nd he makes the mis- take of getting a berth tot; the tal- ented Willie at the Broadway class cafe. "My People." the title of the sketch, is the theme gon^. It; Is lit- tle wonder that the cla$;s kudi.ehce is Impatient with the ' imbitious songster who flops miserably,-l^^*?^ ' Ing the dance orchestra to ad lib into a dance set to dispel the gloom of Willie's poor showing. Back, on 2d avenue,, he. algain does "My People," a brashly propaganda song with which the average fludl- ence will haye Ijttle patience, gardless of. lihe .Howar.ds';, prestige and the advantage of a "cosmbpoli- tan audience In ; New York. The further'away from the big burg, the less inclined will be audience symr- p.ithy, for It is strictly a local plu&. But what a mop-up it wiil. be. in a ghetto neighborhood! The down- town Clinton inanagemeht can-play this as a sub-feature for that rear son alone. Warners palpably . .Strove- for a junior edition of "The Ja^z Siiiiie.er,'' but the Howards didn't ..pick a top happy theme song in •"My,.P'eople,* Am. NEW YORK Philharmonic Orch. Overture, "Tahnhauser" VITAPHONE NO. 314 ,8!MIns. Warners, New York. Looks like one of ..the 1926 group that launched Vltiiphone. Tendency pf last couple Of seasons has been away from musical aggregations of such size (about. 125 iptlsicians), so' at least' this type of short has .not bgen hpmerousi ; / At this date it 'is siirprisinjer to note how good such an. early effovt was (approaching it with a, .krtoAY.l- odge of tra,de and technical histpry=) v arid it is rijore surprising that after ail the ;adya;hces one of the pibrieer releases cb.h' play .' on . Brosidway without .seeming . to be "dated'' or .pasjse..-. ■ While this ti'.pe, of short would spieedlly becOiiie bdresome if nuptier- olas or frequent, ..it's a nOyelty be- cause of the tremendous size of the Philhftrmohic prganlzatldn. XJriaueSr tibnably small towns , •Will , find it a revelation. And it -is quite, probr able that a .rtiajorrty of all filiri audiences everywhere •have-.neve),"' attended ia! ; Pliilharihonic concert^ So that, eiihances its novelty.: ai)peal all around 'Tannhaiuser'.' .Is; heavily Teutonic : muslc,Vyet the rnike captured its gutteral mbtlf Very : well. . Henry Hadley. cond.iiict:ed for thl,s esfrlj?. recording,, , . ; ; . Lqfui.; \ . (ALL DlALOG--iWith Songs and Dances) (Owing to the uncertainty of universal appeal in an all-colored talking picture: of the.Character of VHallelujah'^ Variety, prints three review^ by different writers. One on its premiere at the Embassy, New York, Aug. 20, at $2, and another on its f'eceptiori at the Lafayette, all ^colored the^ atre of Harlem, where the film is simultiheously appearing. The thicd review here is by a gM staff- writery arid from the woman's iajigltf. It is scarcely to be exrpected a trade paper reviewer could pass-^a casual opinion as to this universal appeal,, which ineans ' so much to the producer in tlie. way of a profitable return. Both of Variety's male r6- .viewers appear to think^^'Halleluja.h" 'will rhostly appeal. in the sticks, t may be that "Hallelujikh!' Will attract mo than in the pop -price houses.'.'; ' . "VT•; With "Hallelujah" the decision can only arrive: .with the returns. If the colored race ,ca.h appeal on the shadowy screen to, all, in .other than colored, cpmedy, the Negro dramatic and musical comedy actor.'inay firio a'Ijlate-.in the ■studios.,,. , ■ ■ • ' ' : Any other all f negro picture of the^ past \is diSregarded'in favof of."Hal- elUjah'* as the. example: for- gene^^i picture fan favor here and abroadi DOUGLAS STANBURY "Marchin' Home" VITAPHONE No. 86.1 9 Mins.; Song Namber Warners, New York, This represents a distinct, advance In Vitaphone shorts. It is iaway from the rubber stamp. Suggested by but not directly imitative of the same song as • sung by the same baritone at the Roxy, New Yprk. it has been intelligently moiinted with a production. That production steps out of the classification, of singing, of which there has been an enbr- mous over-production, arid becomcR genuine audience-stirring. e,mbtion- ali.sm. Trench stuff forms a goOd- back- ground for the" thuinping tempo "of the music, the theme arid the virile singer. . Stanbury;. a young , n\ah possesses a smooth; full and rever- berating baritone. ■ ' Spotted last on a !fOur.-;act^ Vita- phone bill at this house. Any wired" house can book It in the knbwled,ge. they are gettiriief sbmcthihg. ■ t^iai escapes ^^Fdr^^'^^^^gv ; .{mni:^ ■ MvG-M prAducfion and release. ' Story and dlr<icMon Ijy King. Vlddr, .Scenario .b>- Wanda -TUchock. . Tre.atment. by Utchard. Sotioyer; ,. Slrtlotr ' by. lUinsom. Rideout. ■Cameraman, Goridoit Avil. Edited by Huph "Wynn;" Weatefh piectrlc sounded (disk).. At Embaaey, New fork; Aug. 20; twice dally, %2 top. -: Running tlirte; IW) minutes. Zeke;. ....'Daniel U' Haynes Chick. . i...Nljia Mae .McKlnney Hot Shot;,..;..ii.».-..i-i.Willlam Fountalne Parson...... ..,...'.;v....... .Harry Gray Mainmy. w..........Fannie,vBelle DeKnight Spunk.;. .., .i...........Everett, McGorrlty Missy. Bose...,victoria Spl.vcy , ,• . : V : fMUton .picke^^ Johnson Kldg....-{"Robert Coucb • . • ■ . . Vwalter 'Talt • , , , aijd .I)lx(e ,Jubilee Singers .' VAN and SCHENCK Songs',.- M-G-M MOVIETONE I. Mins. .- . ?aramoUntj,. New . Yttrk ; " Fast' startihg pace; with..; a... strortg coriiedy number'gets a letdown when things- go straight harmony, though the : Y. & S. ' brand of hjarnibny is enough,.to- sell,the' balance. . Joe, Schenck's ,solo is but . this tirtiei'; Even in' harmony. Jbe's, high,- est ones didn't score SO well oh the celluloid. ,As,Joe's solos are .mbStly high, maybe thkt's the'rea.sbh. .The closer- is.iheir own: version bf .''St. Lbiuls: Blues,'-: used ;by' ^he tea,rt%, .as their punch pumber .-ih. yajude.'last season. . ' Van and . Schenck should dig through their .:rin,atei:ial of the. past for screeri material foif the; present, They have forgbtten more comedy gems than / most harmbny teanis ever knew and soncie can be-revived. The singing and the names will do the rest.- a/,.. :> Bige. THE.aiGi PARADERS 7 VITAPHONE NO, 640 6 Mins.; Full Stage • Mark Strand, New York ; ,.s -. "The • Big Paradere''- might . be heralded, as-a tori of talent.^' It's- a hea,vyiivei^ht revue ehtalling , an avolrdupbis sextet.whb impress with their song arid dance agility despite the collective heft. Tiny and Jack Waites, Elsie Thicl Charlotte Conrad, Edna Howard and Ben Wise comprise, the mixed sextet They' are seasoned trbupers,' and in cbnibination, present a noyelty flash revue, finishing strong with the col- legiate ^'Doln' the :RadcoOn." -.■ Abel. CORA GREEN: VITAPHONE NO. 825 7 Mins.; Songs ; . Warneris, New York. ' . Pbssibiy because Vitaphone. .shorts are Intended for family consumptibn and lyrics must' be innocuous, Cora Greeri's bfferirig seems . dull. She suffers from that venerable com- plaint, no material, .Consequently it's just words and music, and im pression is rather negative. . ■Miss Green, .colored, like Ethel Waters, is the tyf>e of singer who requires., punch lines. And Miss Green hasn't any. ■ Land: Audible Pictures ; has screen rights to 'VThe Last Dance,'' origi- nal by E. McGreW Willis. • WeQlace ■. SmllTi "has sold 'urititlod oTiginai story as Bebe Daniel'^ next for Badib. ■ " r;';•'. Joseph JackSbn now Writing. dia- log for Al Jolsori's "Manimy." Taylor- Holmes starred In Chris- tie's twb reeler, "He Did His Best.;' In cast Carmel Myera, Kathryri Mc- =<5}uiii'e?=Harpy==^\VoodS5 . Inspiration will change title of ■ ^'Dartgei'ous Business" to '.'The Sex Backet.** ■■ ■ FN's "isle of -Lost Ships" still ih ciitling'rooms. :. ' "Bishop Murder Case" (M-G) in- to rehearsal this 'week with Ba-sil Bathbone, Leila Hyams, Polly Mo- fan; Raymond Hapkett in the cast. Nlok Grlrido directing. . - Glrio Corrado, for "Hurdy-Gurdy Man," Fox. Majestic rroductions has IxMifc'ht talkier rights' to Rupert Hugliea' '!The Unpardonable Siri." Made as a silent by old .Goidwyn 'company several years ago'. ■ ; Maick Serinett has completed "The Liinkhead;" with Harry Gribbon. . Ij has signature of Hft'rry J^ciPdy ■4en( ■qasterp^ >^a^^^ <Ji^{!p.i*':. ■ffateTPrice, ft^''''i\oguVs. Desire,''. M-G; - .■■ : . • Russel' Gieason bbrrowcd..by- FOx from I'^Lthe for "Seven Faces.'.' : , Gcbrge Davis for i'Battle ,of the Ladies/' WB. . Allan Gaban for "Zeppelin." TrS. "Their -Own Desire," M-G'S next for; Norma Shearer. Story original by Frances Marion with dialog by James Forbes. Latter' and E/, MasOn ■ Hopper codirect. • • - ' Paul Porca.<!si. for "Throe Sisters," Fox, . . ■'. * •• . Daisy Bolmore for -"Old. Lady Shows Hor Modals," P&r. ■ Jamo.s Bradbury, Jr., for ^'Vaga- bond Rb'gup," M-G. jVn lta-l.oisG-Fremault-and-Ehlllinl In .Ills herculeaja; ai.ttemp't to, take comedy, romance and. tragedy and bierid them initbbig, gripping, all;> cblored <Negr.b) talker,* King. Vidor has turned but an unugual picture from a thenie that, is ,almost aS ancient .as the isun • in his,. "Halle- lujah." ;■ it. is' Vidor all . over > ihe screen. He.; wirbte, the , story, and directed, it , ^iVs .10^ shot that >hereyer it la 'shown in the white man's theatres-: it will hold. high tension .and reel ofE whole enter- tain.ment. ■■ "Vidor's. strict adherence io realism IS so effective at times it is stark ,arid. uncanny. . "Whites will abcept it as ai. camera reproduction,: bf: the typical south- land -with, its, wide Often cottbn spaces, . where' the good r.natured, sihgihg; heigro continues tb eke out a. bare existence; where he lives uh trammeled by, city ways unle|?s he invades their ribtous , precincts; where he has his moments of joy, passion ..and religion, , It brings realistically, to. the screen how he lives..:in . nondescript ..surroundings, with continual evidence of initeraoy that, even remaing^; unpolished when becoming hysterically religious; how that spiritual eniotion sends him into the'highest region bf outward demoristratioh bf .having gone re ligiOiis;. the picturesque river bap tismal in the open; With, earlier scenes showing hii3 old-styled meth- od ;of giving.vent to grief; of the happier .side of plantation iife, the carefree, . syncopatitig singing; and dancing, cotton pickers whose lives run , urieyentful until death stalks in their midst . or sordid tragedy drops into their gayety. The story is a plain one, the char- acters not too many and riO fancy long drawn oiit. monickers, and thus the average - screen fan can follow its theme without the slightest dif- ficulty. This is all' a big feather in Vidor;s \'hat, Where Vidor has :achieyed his ■ greatest here Is , the taking- of inexperienced pifiyers. of. both sexes from a race that .hasn't had all the progressive chanceS in the film;, world to get very far and established them as capable, willing actors, ;1iyho- by ' voiqe and action make impressloplStic Standouts of their -respective parts.' That is big", worthwhile accoriiplishment. ,^ Nina Mae McKinney . as the ■ dy- namic, vivacious girl of the colored underworld^"Who- lives by-her-.wits -and enmeshes, the males by, hcf- per- soniality, sex appeal and dahcirig feet, riever had a day's w.brk before a picture .camera. • .Yet paying close attehtlbn and folloWihg instt-uctions minutely . she jtohd. evt ils >.C;7io • bt th<i *D»o:g^-|; xhrri,T§ iix the mm. Pcr- h.lir;;. the. best.^ay :of desei-ii>ing Nirta .Ma.e-isrthiit-ahe comes- clbsest to-being'the Clara.Bb^v" of her race. So fair seen on ..the. screerii' This girl, 'stepped in oh the, Metro' lot when . Honey Browhi ;'origihally se- lected by Vidor for' the leJvding femme rble. didri't reach expecta- tioris. There, were .times when she displayed a tendency tb Overact, yet mostly stuck to the directorial knit- ting- arid ^wori out on. hep-bwri. Daniel L, Haynes as the principal male is. the big. rough, lazylike col- ored bOy>: hapf>icst when he, sings and who loved his. women. ■:■ In "Hallelujah" his pipes • gbt De Labey for "The Children," Par. Wally Van. Prod uctibris intb work by Sept. 1 on two of 12 short come- dies. Oct. 1 company .starts on two features adapted fi-om stage plays. Mary Nolan's next for U, "Ropes," an original by W^. D. Steele. Fritzi Ridgway, in "Three God- fathers " U. Bon HolmoR to direct "Sporting Youth"'sorlo.=!. X\ <}lenn Tryoii-.'* next for V, "IVira- diso Ahoy." Matt Taylor and Shor- iContinued oh page 24) King Vidor's all-negrb, picture: may be regarded as .the climax, and t^e pb|)ularizatIon bf that increasing body bf seritimeht which: in recent years has found expressioin .through such channels'. as the' ■American. Mercury iarid' .The Ijlntioii. . it 'lias teride'd tb - glorify the . primitive: negro lifo; of. ithe 'sbuth .and" the erherging .race CbrisclouSness and Ih- tellectoal vigor Of the colored jpeo-^ pie. ..'•■ ■■: ,■''. ' XTpbri- such a relatively high plane of. tolerance .and sympathy» Vidor made : his picture. Exhibitors, tlie trjide in. general, arid pbSSibiy much of .the public, may :not. wholly be attuned ..tp', the impUcatibps. .. T^^ raises, the jiroblem, -is the .story, or nairratlve value, strong enough- to carry, through? -.. Will ■ "Hallelujah haye -Jiny commbh denominator. tor Ihe everyday Wliite person detached, frbhi the liberal movement that ceriters. in New York City ? .. ' There are clbiKls in the forecast; "Hallelujah"' will not be universal in appeal although: it's.; a disting- uished pi'Oduction ' arid a ' 'worthy novelty; for. de luxe houses,: with the south an open questipri for coriir peteiit showmen . to deterniiiie for themselves..''.''.-■■;' ^. Arid. firorii iaribther source . it may tapi sympathy. Its revival meetings, baptijiing; in ' the. river' arid other scenes may possibly find a response frorii Methodists - a;nd Baptists iri smaller communities. On-the bthbr hand, althCugh the religious angle is handled ; with siricerity; it may create aritagbriism. It has ...very def inite poteritial reactlpris from, this dlrectiOh, either pro. or ahti. Unijuestioriably.."Hallelujah" Is an a,rtistic success; ■ it Is an extremely well douo effort; .Many, Of the ef fects, miich- 'of- thfr' photography, is .stirring' in its .beauty br strength, or both. If toward the erid It loses the tempo .iirid pace of the early footage."thei'e is no con.spicuOug let dOWlli ■ . . '. Natural, Cori.viricirig: arid uhbelley-- ably gbod Is. the verdict . on the eritire - cast,. - Dahiel. Haynesi the dceprbaritoried.hGro, arid Nina Miae McKinney as the high. yellO'w ciitie, stand but ph the dominance bf their persorialftiea arid' the importance of their ■rples; -.-^ ' . ; ' - . It is perhaps, in. the riianipulatibn of masses, the; levee cabarets, plan tatio.ns, hbly roller: riieetings, etc., that Vidor has. 'accompiished. ;his greatest work. - No White /persbn enters either the. story or the carii- era eye, throughout. It is entirely a story of and with, negroes,^. . Simple emotions, primitive situia tions of love,: lust,, jeailousy and re, morse, a son who falls upon evil accidentally kills his brother and in an aigony of repentance, receives grace .and tu'rns . preacher. To thbse credulous . children of cotton the devil Is a real 'person, eV.er-present and . vioiatibri. of God's-edicts brings bad forttine. ., Students of < Freud will read into the revival shindig a close affinity between religious . frenzy and sex impulses; . This is intelligently jpre rented; wh.en' the Tibt ftianima ^in -a fever of.sudden repentance for .her fOrmef , sins is, all ' uncbrtscious tb herself, bOnsumed ."With a desire fbr the strong,' manly prea'ihjr. this p>tTtir&,' dieSighed ,as 'ah ^jpic of the :;neirrQ. He has ■ packed, in a lot of gliamoi^ and actibii and humanity, if the picture Ls llmitedt its boun- daries are irihererit to the subjectv : It :is, in any event, ammunition >writh -Vvhich to meet tho.se. who con- tend that they riever try-anything new in the film, industry. Jjond. By Ruth Morris "Hallelujah," an all-Negro film sU i;he Embassy, isn't good matinee fare. It is not, In itself, a Wornq.,n'a picture. ^ ' There -is .nothing in it to attract the. fiappers or svipcrficial luricli- - goers who flock to a matinee after a morning's shopping in town, . This element, ,wanting only a box of chocolates and a little' light diver- r slon, wlU be .;quickly bored by the picture, arid take a rather Iridigharit - ietive, as did severail of its number at Monday's crowded niatihee., .it is generally , believed, that if a film cannot be .called a "woman's picture," it won't be a hit;; this one> isri't, yet it should. be a .smashing success; - For many reasons. .. One is , that, .it rings true; even^ when good, old-fashioned hbke is; in- \ ;ected. It's a smobth piQce ot cloth . with comedy thread^ ; interwoven, where they belong. . Drily feriime, .dumb-beils 'will bfi) : bbred with, the fact that; it has nb . iiey^hey night .club, scene, rib'hand- , soriie white herb and no sparkling gowns -'Which usually set the pace for what: should not be Woi-p. . The thlriking: wbriiah ; spectator : will reajize, from the first few sec(ucnces that .a fine ihtielligerice ig iri back -of the telling, of the sihiple stbry, that a- real ieellrig for artistic Oomppsi- tlon-: is ih back of the .photography,. : that the dialog in itself is a musical accompahirinent., arid ■ that at- master-; pipce .is unfoldirig; b.n the, screen,. , ^There nia.y ■ be an,. angle in. the picture;'S mbrinients of hysteria whidh' may,, despite the " film.'s . .seriousness ' fis a , whole,; dra'ly . in ^ttie 'hiatine.e element; - ThiS: ;is. iri; the Gf eeriville Cabaret . scenes dOne with '-'Jowdowh riigfe^r" flavot; it is Covarriiblas at: his most; riiOdern and.blubf ;- As revolting as a" black ^an'd tan qabaret, it Is nevertheless '■ treated with . the 'sincerity: and frankness • that sonieho-yir, ,i:emoVe offense. Only a: leer , would ' make- it fiau^eatiriff;. and Kinig, .Vidor ha?' removed this J)bssibi|ity ;by.. thrbwing: on atriios-r, pheric cblbrs . with ' priniltlvie, bold strokes. -Human riature being what , it is, this, sbqtience, ..although relJi- tivcly. unimpbr-tarit, will probably bd-, the mbst discussed,- arid theigiggllhg- elerrient riiay * dr-bp in, having heard .that it was ''riaughty:'',\ V For the WGmen\,whb :rhind the fact • that; .the little, cabairet girl, is the. very incarnatiori of , evil—gay, un- bridled and. pathetip-^thero is her; flrial: sufferlrig- arid,,: death as a recompense.. Nina Mae McKinney's perforriiarice in this role iS flawless,^ "Hallelujah.'' i.s a saga of the cot- ton fields,- it .starts haPPHy 'with the.'family at work against a snowy background,--ritles into disaster with the hero's trip', tb town to. sell his bale, ari.d cbmes back to happinbss: with Zeke .sitting contentedly :,on a freight-load of cotton sirigiris thb; lovely Largo fi-om' Dvorak's: Sym- phony. .It shows the itinerant preacher - of the south, and his hys- terical parishioners as no - picture, and few books,have done, it miJtes the childish superstittion and simple grfViJdeur of rthe; colored 'race. . It's a liiuman docUtiierit.- THE SOPHOMORE (ALL DIALOG). . Patiie - production , arid- release. • Featui^ ing ICdiiip ' QiilUan. Directed . by, -Leo Mc- Carey.' 'VVilliath Counsolman; . supei'vlsof.- Fro'm story' by Corey ■■Ford .and T. - Hi Wenning. Earl; Baldwin and Walter De- Ijcoh's' dialog. >, Joseph Franklin - Poland, adapter. - At .Pa'rambt^nt, .New York.' we'ck Axfgi 23; Ilunnlhg time, 73 jii'niltes. Jo© Collins .,., .......Eddie' Quillan Margie Callahah .....iSally O'Ncil Tome 'VV'cek ...'.. .Stanley Smith Rai-bara; .-.Jcannette Ijott- Dutch . ..>;.........;.Russell G-Ieason Mrs. GoUlns .-......<% .Sarah Padden; Arm.strong .liBrooks Benedict , Nephew, ').......<,...'.. ';.. .Spec O'Donncll Radio Announcer .'Walter ,6'Kcefo plenty of action iri ■ dialog and In song. Hayrics also .appat'cntly fol- J.owcd.^3[idp_r's direct i on blindly^ and. made sortiethingvof tSe character. Victoria Spivey is the "blues'.' slrigcr Who amazed everybody by doing a pretty natti.ralistic bit of acting as the girl Who loved and waited. And it '<\'as rather ftrango that Vidor <lidn't have hor do a crooriing, moanirig nuriibor. She has a rep for piping'daylight out of such stuff. She. monnod a little but nary, a vocal, croon or .song. IJi'v first screen work. TVilllam -Fountaino, who for years (Continued on page 31) lioyla Georg-e-s*. stage actress, added':'Thi:ee Godfathers;" U. : - riyr,arian- Seegar" bppn'slte ^Charles iloger.s .iri -'*Horc Comes the Band-' WfLgon.V Par. Maripn Harris: for • "Battle of I.adio.';." M-G. . Hedda Hopper for "Rogue Song," MrG. •• -: , Anders Randolph for "Shanghai T.>.V1v,": TT . Antonio Moreno .for "Girl "Who Wri.sri't Wanted.?' Fox; Ba.*?il Rathbohe in. "Bishop Mur- der Case," M-G. . . Richnrd Sriiit.h arid Harry Ed- wardi* allornating on direction of .T.OU Archor-Vcrhon Dont coriiedy .series; IT. Mildred Harri'.s plays fcmnio load in fir.st and Riith Hyatt in second. Noi-ma Talmndpr to mak<>, "Madr- amf l)u Harry," T'A; Ro.iris Toonioy's option taken up by I'lir. This picture Is box office and eri- tertainmen't. It is youthful, speedy, ■hok.ey and full of fun.,. Compared with bthers it looks like ah inex- pensive: : prbductioh' job. ' But ^ So simple- that it's.: easy arid jnlce. to watch' arid listen to.' • As ,the title informs, coll^giats. Collegfi' Stuff- "Writh -fr piUSh bf -s^iu ^^erp is ,{he football" gaine^loie flriish ending, but handled in a cork- ing comedy way; Through the gag- ged lip radio : a:hnbijncirig' job, as done by Xyalter .O.'Keefe, the foot- ball, sequence is funny all the. 'way and'the picture .folds .with a laugii. It is a.laugh built-up like a million. Before sprung:-they iare AVaitirig for. it, but they 'were, just waiting to laugh as they knew the . answer.' Arid they, laughed. The radio bit and Eddie :Quillari's. performance are i>much if not most of the picture. - ,iEddie:^s-Joe Collin.s. college wise guV, He loses his tuition money ($200) the first day of school via dice. .. That means back to the: soda counter job. Sally, O'iNeil is - the waitress there and the boss is stuck on her. But she likes Jbe, so the bo.ss fifes him,. Joe is about to'lcave .SChool^aEjft:riAtdj}f=£Unds.=The^doufilL shows up mysteriously, sent, bf course by Margie (Sli.ss O'Np.il) Whb .touched: the boiss for it. .Too thinks his ma mailed it in. lie loai'ns the truth before the finish, and that's the big heart throb. ■ Margie .slips into .Toe's room in the fraternity house- tQ intercept a givoa;way note and, .««ave Joe from knowing, but is caught and J"0 is canned from thc^ frat and school. The g.'imo next day is tho siluarcr. And the ganx'! .loo gi<l.^< in wii'^ (Con^tlnucd on page 31)