Anyone so misguided as to disregard the Playgoer's advice to see Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery in "Private Lives" when it appeared in Boston some while back, has been pityingly spared by the Fates; now he is furnished with another chance to see this happy interlude of infidelity and infatuation, which is now appearing at the University Theatre, in conjunction with Douglas Fairbanks' travel picture "Around the World in Eighty Minutes."

"Private Lives" is a succession of romantic seenes and dynamic situations peopled by selfish yet utterly charming personalities. Dramatic flares of invective alternate with cosy hours of idyllic romancing as Miss Shearer and Mr. Montgomery, newly-wedded, but not to each other, lead Reginald Denny and Una Merkel, their lawful mates, a merry chase through alpine scenes of photographic excellence. Sophisticated without being stilted, explosively theatrical without being either absurd or the least unconvincing, "Private Lives" stands at the top of the Playgoer's list of the season's comedies.

In filming "Around the World in Eighty Minutes" Douglas Fairbanks has made the most entertaining travelogue that the Playgoer has ever soon. The photography alone would recommend it highly, but this is only part. Mr. Fairbanks' running-fire comment, through starting out somewhat in the Graham McNamee vein, grows better and better as time goes by. Above all, there is an incredibly clever continuity to make a smoothly-flowing film out of disconnected scenes. Mr. Fairbanks is never at a loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride about, with one foot in Tibet and another in Hong Kong, pointing out the route. Again, when time presses, he produces a most convincing magic carpet to whisk his party home to Hollywood on the tick of the eightieth minute. Yet these tricks of photography and sound-recording seem not at all out of place with such a spellbinder at hand. Mr. Fairbanks does very well indeed with his eighty minutes and ours.