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Because the bait was still fresh on the second showing, the house was packed with hopeful sailors and tired businessmen. Numerous Harvard students were also looking for not-so-innocent merriment. Actually, the show is a must for members of the Film-Society and the Verein Turmwaechter and nothing but an expensive ($0.75) disillusionment for lusty minded Harvardians and sailors on shore leave.

In "The Artist's Model," Anton Walbrook is an artist "famous for his nudes." Equally famous as a lover in circa 1900 Vienna, he has much trouble leaving one woman, protecting the reputation of a second, and winning the hand of a third. His "love of convenience" with the latter, an unsophisticated girl, turns into the real thing, to the chagrin of his ex-pash. She schemes to break up the affair, and finding that be still won't come back to her, finally plugs him with a small roscoe, containing two cigarettes and one bullet. Things finally get straightened out, and love triumphs. It's hard to say exactly how old this German picture is, but it's an interesting antique as well as a satisfying comedy of manners. Despite an unexhilarating pace, it is skillfully acted, and enjoyable if you don't go with the sole intention of seeing nakkid women. The only nakedness to be observed is the collection of Varga girls plastered on the bill-boards outside the theatre.