There is one pleasant feature about "Dames", the current attraction at the University; it should end once and for all Hollywood's attempts to produce anything new and refreshing in the line of musical films. This department cannot conceive of the possibility of combining more lavish expenditure of money, larger numbers of peroxide chorus girls singing mildly suggestive syncopated noises than the producers have done in the case of "Dames". Despite the brave efforts of Ruby Kneeland and Dick Powell the result is a dreadfully trite and boring picture which differs only from its predecessors in that it has the misfortune to be the most recent of a long line of such efforts. If we were not convinced of the vainness of so doing we would raise our voices unto Hollywood and pray for mercy and no more musicals.

The second feature is entitled "Hat, Coat and A Glove" and is another murder story all mixed up with a few love affairs of varying intensity. Ricardo Cortez is cast as a lawyer who is faced with the not too unusual dilemma of having to defend his wife's lover. The note of newness is added by the fact that the actual murderer is none other than Mr. Cortez himself though it all seems to have been a great surprise to him. You will no doubt be relieved to know that everything ends quite pleasantly for everybody.