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...House loses in water view it gains in privacy and quiet. And the tower itself! What happy stroke of artistry decreed its color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think it a bit of sky caught by the wings and pinioned up aloft there white of cloud, blue of heaven, and gold of the gun. Hellenic, too; for these are the colors which everywhere in Greece fill the eye and flood the mind...
Metropolitan: "Three Faces East". Constance Bennett and Eric von Stroheim doing their bit...
This is certainly a fine plan, and adds just the proper zest and sporting instinct to a game which in other places has started to become a bit tiresome. Unfortunately the speakeasy, like the fox at the hunt, doesn't stand a chance, but the plan is a laudable effort to keep alive one of our finest national sports. And in twenty miles there is plenty of time to sober...
...Knew Women", with Lowell Sherman and Alice Joyce, is really a good bit of entertainment. There is no tremendous universal significance, there is no stark reality, but there is a cleverness of lines and acting on the part of of the parasitic leading man that makes the play enjoyable...
...first meetings of courses are, as a rule, singularly unproductive and even a bit tiresome. There is, be sure, a certain feeling of relief in knowing that nothing of importance will be said, but in the average course such first impressions are deceptive and temporary. Hence Professor Cole threw the proverbial "pineapple" among the ranks of students in Economics 9a by announcing certain progressive measures which he intends to introduce into the course...