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The Moviegoer

AT THE UNIVERSITY

The National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong playing "Jeepers Creepers"; a murder mystery, and Maxine Sullivan singing "Mutiny in the Nursery;"--that is the dish the University is serving up today and tomorrow. In its serious moments, except for a rendition of Wagner's "Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads. By so doing, he succeeded in making a successful whole; but the makers of "Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start by the presence of Dick Powell, takes itself seriously every now and then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when the leading men sit down at a piano and compose "Oh What A Horse Was Charlie" to the tune of "Mother Machree." On the whole, the program is entertaining,--more than the marquee would indicate.

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