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Should doting but fixation-fearing parents kiss their babies by a stop watch? Should a father merely shake hands with his moppet before retiring? Is it bad for a child to like his nurse? In the current Parents' Magazine, Bertrand Russell, famed British philosopher, takes it upon himself to refute some new-fangled ideas about parenthood, to disseminate a few commonsense tenets of his own. Excerpts from his treatise, entitled: "Are Parents Bad for Children...
...sentiments are precisely those that are held by every intelligent, liberal-minded man who fears for the disappearance of these vital elements of university life that are more and more being submerged by the current craze for externals...
...theme for a movie, not is it the best one that can be found these days, despite the seeming scarcity of good plots. If it isn't the plot that makes a movie good it is the actor--or actress. So it is with "The Divorcee", the current film at Loew's State...
...breaking tour of 77 concerts in 22 weeks, and a succes equalled by few recent newcomers. Before returning for a fourth U. S. tour* next January he will take a long vacation, not on the Riviera as has been his habit, but "somewhere in the mountains." Mountains are his current enthusiasm. In Denver not long ago he asked immediately on arrival for altitude figures. Pleased on hearing it was so high (one mile above the sea) he said: "Here I shall play the best concert of my life...
...tale of 18th Century Cumberland. Hero Francis Herries rake, skeptic, violent-tempered, takes his family from the comforts of Doncaster to a rude, half-savage life in his ancestral home at Rosthwaite in the Cumberland lake country. His stupid wife irritates him; to irritate her he brings along his current mistress. Soon he is known, feared, disliked by the whole countryside. The troubles of '45 (invasion of England by the Young Pretender) hardly touch him, though he and his son are in Carlisle when the town falls to Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders. His mistress dismissed, his wife...