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...finally made his debut, eating a red apple in the family tradition, at a Chicago performance of Magda. Comfortably settled now in Hollywood, John Barrymore is supposed to have worn the same felt hat since the day he arrived. He speaks of the cinema and its moguls with witty contempt but sees to it that, when feasible, he is photographed from the left side, and shown, at one moment or another, puffing on a pipe. Gossipmongers, picturing him as an eccentric, are delighted by the fact that he has the only privately owned dinosaur...
...barrage against the "Modern Intellectual." He presents as a composite of certain characteristics in colleges today a fictitious professor in a fictitious western university, both devoid of tradition and culture, and both supremely materialistic in outlook. Easterners will experience a smug satisfaction in this confirmation of their oft-voiced contempt for western materialism, but a more critical examination will reveal a disconcerted irony in Mr. Tunis's glowing praise for the dusty culture of the East...
...District Attorney Grain. He restrained his own Republican Attorney General from extending a separate inquiry. Finally the Legislature, impatient with these scattered efforts to clean up Tammany Town, authorized its own investigation, put Mr. Seabury in charge. As yet nobody has gone to jail for anything more serious than contempt as a result of this legislative investigation but the crime and corruption of Tammany officials has been exhibited daily through the Press...
...What are the Hitlerites but human dust?" asked Leon Trotsky in a manifesto to German Reds. "Their vain chat ter about 'Social Fascism' . . . their empty imitation of real Fascism . . . should fill every German Communist with contempt...
...case began when Editor Mapoles, fined $10 for contempt of court because of a newsstory which offended Judge T. B. Robertson, appeared in court with 17 local lawyers to appeal his case. Soon afterward the following letter appeared in the "People's Forum" of the News...