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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1948
Colleges Will Be Realistic In The Newer Movies
Hollywood—(UP)—Two young movie writers, who happen to have been to college, are erasing the Betty Grable co-eds and the last-minute touchdown from the Hollywood campus scene.
"With more and more people going to college," Mr. Sale said, "more people in the audience recognize what's phoney and what's real in a college movie."
There is a football hero in the picture, Bob Arthur, but he doesn't flunk his exams on account of Betty Ann Lynn just before the big game.
In "Mother Is a Freshman," Van Johnson is a professor, but far from absent-minded. He's hep enough to fall for Loretta Young.
In fact, there isn't any big game. This also does away with that stand- ard speech to the stam: "Get in there and fight!"
The writers, Mary Anita Loos and Richard Sale, Mr. and Mrs. and graduates respectively of Stanford and Washington and Lee universities are writing not one but two college pictures at 20th Century Fox.
The colleges in "Mother Is a Freshman" and "Belvedere Goes to College" looks like colleges, and the students act like students.
"I remember," Miss Loeo said disdainfully, "when college movies always had an Old Ox Road, kissing rock, chorus of Betty Gray chorines, and absent-minded professors. We're changing all that."
"Audiences don't go for that corn any more." Mrs. Sale said.
However, Mr. Johnson never claims she has to kiss him because they're standing under old' Whatzitname's statue, and it's college tradition.
Nobody has the line, once traditional in college flickers: "Jiggers, here comes prexy."
The unconventional humor of having Clifton Webb enroll at a university is supposed to keep the clichés out of "Belvedere Goes to College."
Nor will Alan Fall in love in
with a girl cheer-leader who looks
like Grable. Miss Grable was
graduated long ago and is working
elsewhere
In a revolutionary move, 20th is casting 17 and 18-year-olds as the college freshmen.
"We got tired." Miss Loaas said, "of seeing Bing Crosby, Richard Arlen and Jack Oakie taking college entrance exams."
The Sales' way of writing assures that these films will be two minutes shorter than the old-time college thrillers.
"We are skipping the last two minutes of the football game," they said, "in which the audience breathlessly wins for the winning touchdown."
British To Abolish Old Birth Custom
London—(UP)—The British government and people will have to take the royal family's word for it when Princess Elizabeth bears a possible heir to the British throne, in about two weeks.
Buckingham Palace announced recently that the ancient custom of summoning the home secretary to the palace for the birth will be abolished.
His attendance, to insure that no royal changeling has been foisted on the people, is "merely the survival of an archaic custom," the palace said in its first official announcement of arrangements for the royal birth.
Originally the home secretary was present during a royal birth. It had been anticipated that Home Secretary Chuter Ede at least would be summoned to the palace for the arrival of Elizabeth's baby.
"It is merely the survival of an archaic custom and the king feels it unnecessary to continue further a practice for which there is no legal requirement."
University Daily Kansan
Christian Group Has Discussion Panel
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A panel discussion on "quire time" was presented at the regular meeting of the Inter-varsity Christian fellowship recently.
The participants were Mrs. Helga Upham, circulation assistant in Watson library; William Herwig, business junior; Marvin Burnham, engineering junior; and Ralph Wood, College freshman. They discussed the subject matter, length, purpose, and time of quiet time for a college student, Dean Anderson, business senior, presided as moderator during the question period.
The University's debate team won top honors at an invitational tournament at Purdue university Nov. 5. Sixteen teams took part in the tournament.
Debate Team Wins Honors
William Conboy, College senior,
was chosen the best affirmative
debater, and Edward Stollenwerek,
College junior, won third place for
negative debaters. The subject was
"Federal Aid to Education."
Members of the winning fourman team were Conboy, Stollenman team were Conboy, Stollenior, and Keith Wilson, senior.
Other schools taking part in the two-day meet were Michigan State college, the United States Naval and Military academies, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Chicago, Boston, Alabama, and Purdue.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and coach of the winning team. accompanied them to the tournament.
Actors Are Nuts, Movie Director Says, But The Strain Makes Them That Way
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Hollywood—(UP)—Director Robert Siodmak says positively that actors are crazy and he loves 'em that way.
Movie-making keeps them as tense all day as a drawn bow. At night, the tension comes off, there is a terrific release of energy, and that's what you read about in the headlines the next morning.
Nightclub brawls. Drinking. Marijuana. Divorces. Mr. Siodmak shrugs his shoulders. What can you expect?
"The rest of the country doesn't understand Hollywood," he said. "What it calls sins are not always sins here. If someone were to come here and live like movie people have to live, he either would go crazy—or go Hollywood."
In New York, he added, Hollywood's sins would be inconspicuous. New Yorkers sin just as much.
Most movie fans think it must be a breeze to make movies, Mr. Siodmak's been told. It isn't. It's a hard, tedious, nerve-wracking business.
"I go to bed at 9 when I'm on a picture," he said. "I'm awake again at 1. The cameras go around for the rest of the night." His current insomnia is over M-G-M's "The Great Sinner."
Actors and writers work among highly-charged emotions all day. Their own feelings are bottled.
"So they let them off at night," Mr. Siodmak said. "So they're hard to get along with, and they get divorced."
Even the car-hops in Hollywood are tense, he said. They're all frustrated beauty queen winners who couldn't get a job in the movies and are scared to go home without one.
A midwestern university announced recently that it had found that all actors were mentally abnormal and inclined to a split personality.
You don't have to go to college, Director Siodmak said, to discover that. Working in the movies would make anybody that way.
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