"INDIFFERENCE" ALL-STAR CAST

Alumni of Cornell University are quite perturbed at the news that a moving picture producer is planning a film of Cornell life to be called "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as a delicate tribute to that institution's well known song. Visioning their Alma Mater under the glare of bright lights and reflecting that the estimable old lady is not as young as she might be these alumni seem to doubt that she will appear to advantage on the stage.

Such-disapproval is short-sighted; for the movies offer the best possible way for Cornell to break out of its Ithacan fastnesses and sell itself to the country at large. Once the public has glimpsed the serene, unwordly life the modern undergraduate leads in his pursuit of knowledge they will no longer believe the "college" movies with which Harold Lloyd and Charles Ray have travestied real college life.

Perhaps the next move of the Griffiths and Foxes and Zukors will be to produce a masterpiece called "Indifference," intending to chronicle the daily life of Harvard students. There would be no difficulty in finding all the ingredients of a good scenario.

What more fit subject for comedy than an impromptu encounter between the goody and the hapless student at some compromising moment? For red-blooded action with thrills and hair-breadth escapes, there are the traffic terrors of the Square. Suspense and tragedy could both be embodied in a visit to University Hall. For human interest, what more moving than a close-up of the daily organ-grinder? And as for mystery, the movie might make a real contribution to the world's knowledge by revealing the ways and means, of Max Keezer and those cherubs of doubtful extraction who have never been known to utter but one refrain: "Gimme a penny, Jack!"