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Mounted with authority against a technically difficult background and cannily photographed by James Wong Howe, Stamboul Quest is a mediocre vehicle for another lively performance by Myrna Loy. Best shot: Nuns trooping, two by two, past the demented Annemarie...
...Chaos", while centering on four or five leading characters, is a series of random shots, quotations, glimpses of the life conditions of the different classes, and brief accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene...
This method of teaching has long been defended and is called humanizing knowledge teaching extension courses to background and is characteristic of correspondence courses and courses which give a mastery of English literature by spending fifteen minutes a day. The college student, however, is expected to have a sufficient amount of brains and intellectual interest to master a subject without resort to armchair talks" or popular lecturing. If the Freshman is not treated from the first as a mature individual, capable of accepting responsibility and is nurtured upon spoon-fod knowledge, he will soon find college work too much...
...rivalry of two gangs of Viennese schoolboys for the possession of a lumber yard forms the background of the story, which moves smoothly through the usual series of incidents to a powerful though somewhat everdone conclusion...
...comes a bonafide effort to investigate, in the form of an exhaustive questionnaire. Twenty-one colleges are uniting in this study, each one sending these questionnaires to the graduating classes in its vicinity. The questions are exceedingly specific and pertinent covering minutely such questions as family background, academic likes and dislikes, associates, hobbies, religion, responsibilities, weekly allowance, adaptability in society and capacity for leadership. The Choate News