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of screen satire we have seen inmonths. The name of the actor whodees this is omitted from the cast, butto us he was the biggest laugh in thepicture.Although opinion may be divided asto Eddie, there can be little dispute as to the merits of Sally O’Neil. Miss O Neil's voice as heard via the movietone has all the melody and charm of a cat being thrown through a screen door, or a flower pot going through the roof of a greenhouse.‘•The Sophomore is fair entertainment if you still believe in the “Rover Bovs. in justice to the other half of its audiences, the Mainstreet should have a “University week, when there would be a picture about real undergraduates and when no pen-movie school year is opened with actors, writers and directors enrolledin Hooey 2 B, Hokum, 2,000 B. C. and Ancient Gags.Long ago we decided there wouldnever be a college movie that faintly resembled those bright college years when we were rushed by Phi Beta Kappa but were not harmed as we had beaten them to the city limits, thus forever raising the scholastic standards of dear Old Missou! We decided we could only hope for an occassional good football game and that when we saw that we would call it a fair collegiate pictureBy that standard “College Love” is all right. It has some good scenes on the gridiron and it is here the best;1rKAPERS IN KLEVER KOLLEGE KLOTHES.V.V ;\** y*S,11j*Nyyw1the Mainstreet. Eddie Quillan Is just too cute for words, while Sally O'Neilphomore, about which “College Week” has beennants would be in the lobby and nolads from Brooklyn would be dancing the Collegiate Drag in the stage show. Such an experiment might be widely patronized by the thousands of alumni in Kansas City who have some recollection of what college waslike.(ilobe—“College l.ove.George Wilson George tewli•'Flash Thomas..........Eddie PhillipsD- TO. .V Mav..........Dorothv GulliverJnr.rr .. .......... Churchill HoseCoaca Jones .Havden StevensonEut .. Summer GetcheliONCE more Coifcrd triumphs over“our ancient rivals,” once more the needed touchdown is made in the ; last five split-seconds of play, once more the hero says to the villain “we must bury our differences and fight for old Alma Mater,” once more the 1part of the plot Is enacted. Thevillain is permitted to act a trifle less like a skunk than he usually is required to and the hero less of anApollo.Eddie Phillips who is the best looking part of the “Collegians gives a good performance as the villain, George Lewis, who is old enough to be the president of an alumni association, once more depicts the undergraduate hero, and Dorothy Phillips enacts the heroine, for no apparent reason Hayden Stevenson, who looks as though he might collapse after walking upstairs, is once more the coach. He seems ill at ease becausehe is not permitted to get in his great speech about how good the show will be next week, Churchill Ross has abandoned his use of big words as the(Continued on Paae 200.1
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 15, 1929
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