Evening star., 1929-11-04

lege life. although there is not q gin
| bottle or a tipsy sophomore in 1t. But
one reviewer will lay odds OF two tick
cts to q last years algebra book tnat
| 80 per cent of all audiences Will md
it delightfully."- amusing. Including the
deans!
There is little of story. Two juniors,
Eddie and Biff, are played for saps
by the college vamp. Tnelr rlvaIry al
but between halves Of the big game
they overhear her talking to her f1ance,
and in the last 10 minutes of play
| he dashes out to score the winning
touchdown. Foot ball fans will find
! the picture immense. Long shots are
lifted from a Stanford-Southern Cali
fornia game, with its colorful crowd of
The performance of Elliott Nugent
and Robert Montgomery. as the boy
friends, and Sally Star, as BabS, the
college Vanmp, is as neat and enter
tanning as one could ask for Snappy
conversation, plenty OF freshman tricks.
tuneful songs and attractive dancing
all go to make the picture a fast
moving, breezy description of how youth
spends its lighter moments. Cliff Ed
wards, Phyllis Crane, Max Davidson
and Polly Moran bolster the piece with
comedy touches and add not little to
the movement.
And now we know where the high
school girls and boys of Washington
spend their Sunday evenings. Action
foot ball teams, Eastern, Western, Gen.
trail. Business, Tech, ct al, are in
cluded in the newsreels, and from the
cheering last night one judged himself
to be on the sidelines after a touch
down. The songs Babs sings in so
This Is College" will be heard in many
high school homes before the week is
out, never fear.
AL Evans contributes a notable
achievement in a musical trial that pins
guilt on one of his players for killing
Sonny Boy" Teamed with a picture
slower and less entertaining than so
This Is College," the stage presenta-
ton, Shanghai TESTERS" doubtless
would enjoy a better reception. Even
so, Seed and Austin, comedians. and
the Williams sisters, who were among
the first hot songsters.", get big
hand. Others who contribute to the
revue are Electa Havel, mezzo-soprano.
Madama Serova's Chinese Rosebuds''
and Bemis and Brown. dancers. HC.
EON The time seems near when
the American movie public
DIE will be so familiar with dress
Time room lingo and back stage life
that this device OF setting, seized
upon with joyous whoops by the
entire talkie industry after the triumph
of Broadway Melody" will have lest
its heretofore glamouous appeal. Going
back stage will be almost like going
into a friends kitchen, with fewer in
ducements.
Certain originalities distinguish Big
Time" now being shown at the Fox
from many of its contemporaries.
though the plot again concerns q
"hoofer" equipped with personality
without brains. After he attains 1.-The
big time" his partner and wife, whose
intelligent coaching got him there, is
pushed out of his life, for the time
being. by a scheming blonde. This
ruins the act for the dance man does
nothing but brood in repentance. He
slides back to the three-a-day and
thence to the brake beams.
Matters mend out in Hollywood
where the "hoofer" recently a tramp
brt now an extra for a day. finds him.
self on the same set with the restora-
tive he had been seeking. his erstWhile
wife. It. develops she has done quite
well in the movies.
The show contains some tuneful
music and bits of exceptionally good
vaudeville. with a generous display of
dancing girls. 1t also contains Stepin
Fetchit, who spends an entire evening
hunting a trained seal in the wings.