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When an English girl begins really to like a man from "the States," or when an English dowager designs to flatter one. she usually says: "You know, you don't really seem a bit like an American...
...white pictures have set in the realm of the talkies. The drawings and musical score are both lively and amusing. In fact it was the most hilarious part of the bill. The other contributions, unfortunately were as dull as ever, the booby prize going to a particularly annoying bit designed to show the beauties of the Sunny South. The final contribution was another so-called organologue, whose only apparent purpose was to make more vacant seats for the feature picture...
...Emerald, Australia, Joseph Smith, drover, flicked the head off a poisonous adder with a bull whip. The head, entangled in the snapper, swung around, bit Mr. Smith...
...granted are the things for which we no longer fight. But when a populace becomes indifferent to its freedom, it begins to lose it." Liberty, once a matter of politics, has now become an affair of individual psychology. "Would you be free? Then first become civilized. To understand this bit of ancient wisdom is to distinguish the true liberal from his vociferous imitator." The struggle for freedom, says Author Martin, is a conflict of cultural values. Romantic ideas such as Rousseau made popular and hoped to make universal are as inimical to the cause of liberty as any other form...
Speaking of the cinema, the show at the University tonight is just about perfect for a bit of light mid-exam period refreshment. The western picture is thoroughly entertaining and all real Vagabonds will be completely delighted with Miss Janet Gaynor in her latest smile...