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...Life has run dog pictures for years successfully, often with somewhat irrelevant humor, so dog pictures on the screen will prosper no matter how pertinent the application. This present sample has a superbly absurd story about the blind ancient who keeps the light, his lovely daughter, her marcelled boy friend. Smugglers and kidnapping. Police Dog Rin-Tin-Tin does most of the rescuing, lights the beacon on the fatal night. For most people he is an all-sufficing hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...West Point blend competently into one of the better routine entertainments. The military academy turned out in force, supplied background, students, atmosphere. For those who know West Point only in the Sunday supplement the film is an excellent and animated revue. Mr. Barthelmess plays well as the poor boy who comes to join the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...years of compulsory Latin and a gallery-full of modern paintings would make the village a cultural cen- tre. The hardy life would "make the boy of 12 self-reliant, the boy of 14 resourceful, the boy of 16 persevering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

Some 55 years ago, a sickly English boy was shipped by his family out to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother there and build up his constitution. That was the beginning of a longish story that empire-building Britons now teach their children very early in life. The sickly young man dug diamonds, bags of them, at Kimberly. As he dug, his health returned. At 19, he was a 19th Century Croesus with his life before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torpid, Dismal | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...disorderly small boy with grubby touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Dec. 22, 1924 | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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