A last echo of the medical films which began in 1908 and which have been running with tiresome monotony ever since, appears at the University this week, with Tom Brown, the perpetual adolescent, in the role of a medical student and Anne Shirley playing the part of a highly imaginative orphan girl whose partings from Tom furnish the heart-throbs, tears, etcetera, in "Anne of Green Gables."

Anne Shirley gives a capable, but decidedly not inspired, performance, while Helen Westley as the Puritannical and tyrannical stepmother, violently overacts her part. Fortunately the Hollywood moguls have seen fit to give O.P. Heggie the role of the sympathetic man of the family, whose mission is to comfort and console the luck-less pair. It is O.P. Heggie's acting which raises the film asinity to the level of mediocrity.

The whole film is slightly amusing, also mildly bewildering, with no introduction of the characters, but eventually it becomes clear that Tom Brown is Gilbert Blythe and that Anne Shirley is Anne Shirley.

If Tom Brown's contract depended upon this picture or upon any other picture in which he has appeared, it would be safe to predict that he will be given his release from Hollywood and a one-way ticket to Hongkong, but the incredible youth apparently writes himself enough fan mail to make it appear that some persons consider him an actor, though God knows that we don't As usual, he strikes the unhappy medium between Professor Merriman and Baby Leroy.

In the companion film, "Evelyn Prentice," Myrna Loy and William Powell exert their talents to make the picture less obnoxious than the usual run of attorney-for-the-defense pictures.