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...king; discovers oil on the village outskirts; goes broke; and is forced to devise a water spout on the oil strike to puff values for his stock. Through it all he is, of course, quite honest. Lila Lee is the lady he marries. While scarcely a classic, the film is the best Air. Meighan has manufactured in some time. (See also BUSINESS & FINANCE...
...next page was devoted to The Art of Technology: Ossified at Birth. Loafer pointed to the buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which catalogs call: "classical Roman laid out in the French manner." Loafer called it: "A factory attempting the Roman in a derby hat . A picket-fence palace. A hairless, scrubbed and tasteless eunuch playing dominoes. . . . The hokum of the 'pseudo classic...
Madame Sans Gene. Gloria Swanson, husband and all, is back from Paris with this latest, most expensive picture. It is a classic of the French stage and is played before backgrounds of Fontainebleau and Compiegne loaned specially by the Republic. These backgrounds and the costumes are extraordinary. The story cannot match them nor can the performance of the actress. The usually dependable Miss Swanson overplays the little laundress who rose to be a Duchess. She could not remember not to say "ain't" and got herself in trouble with the Princesses, Napoleon's sisters. A great many francs...
...problem of this second group was treated, last week, by the classic nonagenarian of the U. S., in almost classic, although not scientific, language. Chauncey M. Depew, approaching his 91st birthday (Apr. 23) wrote for Collier's Weekly...
General Andrews was no ordinary soldier. He was the voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier...