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...Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills his philosophy by helping them to untangle...
...swore that the devil possessed...
...from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...
...Devil's Cargo. There was a time when the West was stained with certain undesirable community characters. It is alleged that about 75 years ago, Sacramento gathered together all its undesirables and attempted to deport them to San Francisco. The latter refused to let them land, and out to sea they drifted. The possibilities for romance and dirty work in such a cargo are evident. They have been realized in a generally exciting picture in which Pauline Starke gives a specially good performance...
...fool who said: "Americans are the most begoverned people in the world." Between the proposers of extraordinary blue laws and equally extraordinary anti-blue laws the public is sure to be caught by the devil and the deep blue sea either going or coming. But while feasting on this lugubrious thought, it may be some comfort to know that other nations have their petty restrictions...