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Sent up a shout to cheer the Trojan boy...
...directors should avoid. It sets out to tell the story of a man's soul pounding to pieces on the reefs of poverty. The first reef is Paris; the second, Port Said; finally the South Seas. It all came from a play called Great Music in which the boy finally gets leprosy and is given a year or more of life in which to finish his orchestral symphony. The cinema people, for no reason at all, have given the leprosy to his inoffensive little native girl. Five months later they have cured her to make way for the happy...
...GREAT GATSBY-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner-($2.00). Still the brightest boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely...
Speak roughly to your little boy...
...issue contained the opening movements of a hymn ? not of hate, this time, but of praise ? for Judge Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Tintypes, genealogy, ancestral anecdotes, places that the boy Elbert lived or visited, were presented as the start of "a contribution to the real understanding of our times ... a typical American life...