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Ivy Films Will Show Risque Lamarr Film

"Ecstasy" will be shown in the New Lecture Hall Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27.

The motion picture, famous for its shots of Hedy Lamarr unclothed, will be brought here under the sponsorship of Ivy Films. Nothing will be cut out, according to George M. Kurson '51, who announced the showing yesterday.

"Ecstasy" was filmed is Czechoslovakia in 1933. Reels of it were burned by United States Customs officials in 1935, but it was later admitted. The movie was banned in New York until 1940.

With the main feature, Ivy will show its latest production "Much Ado About Studying." It will also show a sequence from "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" with W. C. Fields and a color movie about Paris.

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