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Granting that Harvard is designed mainly to give a budding young intellectual or Babbitt an education, and granting furthermore that it probably does it in a pretty good way (we have no complaints anyway), the story that Harvard is impossible for someone who wants to take a crack at anything more than studies is erroneous...
Artist Kroll's U. S. competition might have been keener were it not for the current squabble over whether or not museums and art galleries should pay rental for exhibitors' pictures. Because the Carnegie International declines to pay rental fees, dozens of crack U. S. artists refused to send pictures, showed last week instead at Pittsburgh's Gillespie Galleries...
Hate arises between Cain (Clark Gable) and Mabel (Marion Davies) when he, trying to sleep before fighting for the world's heavyweight title, is kept awake all night by her tap dancing in the room above. He loses the fight, earns another crack at the title, wins it. When neither he nor Mabel proves a box-office draw, a press agent gives them glamor by a fake romance. This evokes wearisome bickering, which suddenly ends when hungry Cain surprises Mabel cooking a pork chop. They take to meeting surreptitiously in the public library, kissing behind a book on ichthyology...
...though it evinces a certain arch pride in pointing out that it, too, occasionally depends on bluff to answer Mr. Cram's essay questions. Recently a Yardling was heard to remark with a lifted eyebrow and a smug smile to an apparently shocked companion: 'You know, I didn't crack a book all day yesterday...
...belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale...