The Iron Duke's gilded lily sat on a bench at the Uptown last week and stole his fire; so we see no reason why she shouldn't continue to do so today at the University. Incidentally, we feel quite smug to present a review of the University films on the day they open; but as one can see, we have seen them already.

We hate having to imitate our noted confreres who find in Mr. Arliss' Wellington much of Mr. Arliss' Rothschild, Hamilton, or Disraeli. However, it is not only the easiest way in which to announce another good Arliss picture but also makes critical comment a superfluity.

Claudette Colbert, the gilded lily, appears in the film, bearing that name, which indicates from the start how one is going to have a good time and is therefore doubly successful. Ungilded, she is a shopgirl who meets a steamship reporter every Thursday evening on a bench in the park. They eat popcorn and take off their shoes.

Since Miss Colbert has 165 hours to herself, she has time enough to meet the romantic gentleman who falls in love with her at Coney Island. The one realistic touch, constant passage of fat, scrawny, pimply legs occurs at this juncture. This is probably the reason he doesn't fall in love quite properly. We see him next stepping on a steamer only to learn from the ship reporter that he is the son of a prominent English nobleman taking a little vacation.

When Miss Colbert learns of this from the reporter on Thursday evening, she is skyrocketed into fame as the no-girl at an expensive nightclub. Her first gilded performance, the high point of the show, is very amusing and there is no reason to worry with her. Since one can solve the story from here with the given facts, we shall leave the increasingly confusing action free to unravel itself on the screen.

While there is nothing terribly distinctive about these films, they make a pleasantly relaxing evening. It is better not to think of Miss Colbert and Mr. Arliss in relation to "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" which they succeed, of course, but the University has its second good double-bill of the week.