THENiICHIGA N DAILY RIDAY, WAY 0, 1935 + THE SCREEN + I AT THE MICHIGAN1 "LIVING ON VELVET" A First National picture, starring Kay Francis. George Brent, and Warren Wil- liam. Directed by Frank Borzage. This type of picture, a sophisticated, flimsy, dressy problem play, isa per- fect vehicle for Kay Francis, who, without lavish clothes, her baby-talk r's, and something to look worried about, would have a pretty hard time putting herself across to most au- diences. The title, "Living On Velvet," ac- crues from an airplane crash in which the mother, father and sister of one Terry Parker (George Brent) are killed, leaving him dead from the neck up and with a reckless, irresponsible attitude toward life. He is taken to a party by his best friend where he meets, falls in love with, and mar- ries the hostess. From that point on she attempts to restore him to a normal frame of mind. \This plot, which is obviously threadbare, is saved from instilling an unrelenting ennui into the audi- ence by presenting many attempts to be new, different, clever, and ultra- sophisticated, and to make you for- get that you have seen it over and over again. The attempts, in the hands of such a triumvirate as Fran- cis, Brent, and William, are for the most part, grossly ineffective, and although the situations could be made real and believably clever, they have that far-fetched flavor which shows wants from life with her husband, the other in which the hero portrays an intangible longing to fly again), there are no genuine, convincing mo- ments in the whole of "Living On Velvet." But despite all this, you may like the picture. It is enter- taining to a certain point. But it is, nevertheless, saturated with typical Hollywood ballyhoo which most in- telligent minds would like wiped frcm the face of the earth. -C.B.C. Carrothers To Lead Study Of HighSchools Will Meet With Committee At Capital; Studebaker, Dr. Zook To Be Present George E. Carrothers, director of the University Bureau of Cooperation with Educational Institutions, left yesterday for Washington, D. C., where he is calling a meeting of the general committee for cooperative study of secondary school standards, of which he is the executive chair- man. -Associated Press Photo. Passage by the Senate of the Patman bonus bill, which provides for issuance of S2,000,00,000 in new money, brought happy smiles to Rep. Patman (right) of Texas and Senator Thomas (left) of Oklahoma, who aided in maneuvering the bill through the upper chamber. A presi- dential veto is expected. Engineering Open House Will Exhibit Furnaces And X-Rays I . up the shortcomings of everyone who Representatives from all parts of produced them. the country will meet with him and With possibly two exceptions (one Dr. George F. Zook, director of the in wvhich the heroine states what she national council on education, and the Federal Commissioner of Education, 1a 1;J. W. Studebaker, to determine what Board Pledges j shall be the standards for teaching requirements, graduation, sanitation, Drive Aoainst athletics, etc., in the public high schools throughout the United States. This investigation is supported by Tuberculosis a grant of money from each of the six regional associations whose repre- In an effort to survive financial sentatives comprise the committee in difficulties which threaten the exist- addition to a $25,000 appropriation ence of the county branch of the given this year by the General Edu- Michigan Tuberculosis Association, cation Board. the board of directors voted yesterday The functions of this committee to undertake a personal campaign are of utmost importance to all sec- for $1,000 with which to continue the ondary schools, for 4,500 high schools anti-tuberculosis work here. and three million pupils are affected The importance of tuberculosis pre- by their decisions. -r~r in t -4 - - --n-n onoa 1-,+- 10_____________1___ t E i vention and care was stressed by the board members who were of the op- inion that, in the thousands of dol- lars spent annually in Ann Arbor for extensive health charities, some money should be available for the prevention of the spread of tuber- culosis. While praising the other health programs as being eminently worth- while, various members of the board, called attention to the contagious element involved in tuberculosis. Other diseases need extensive control and care, the board stated, but only very few possess the contagious and virulent qualities of tuberculosis. The board members wished to em- phasize the fact that they were not criticizing the other health programs of the city, but that they were defi- nite and united in believing that tu- berculosis work is a major under- taking and one that is worthy of more general support from the com- munity and the general public than it has received in the past few years. HOST TO IN-LAWS KANSAS CITY, Kan., May 9. - (/') -Dr. Thomas Richmond thinks this stuff about "in-laws" is all wrong. To prove it he plans to charter a bus to take 25 or 30 of his relatives to the Rocky Mountains for a vacation next summer. He will pay all ex- penses. "My wife's folks are grand people," he said. 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