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...forgive its major improbabilities of plot, there is much sound cinematic realism in South Sea Love. Doubtless men do not go to the South Seas to find pearls with which to buy musical comedy careers for lovely actresses; but if they did, they might well behave as herein suggested...
Perhaps Lampy has failed to remember that the experiment should not be condemned after one trial. Doubtless even the mighty ones of Harvard are not above learning by experience...
...What the country needs most is a good five-cent cigar," was a dictum of late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall which passed into the nation's higher political criticism. That statesman would doubtless derive considerable satisfaction at the present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline...
...representatives of four types of eminence. Edison has served mankind. Jane Addams has helped save it. John D. Rockefeller represents genius and one kind of power. Orville Wright personifies Homeric daring. The fifth choice will probably be one who represents per-eminently the elusive spirit of America. There will doubtless be many suggestions, but the choice might well narrow down to the name of Alfred E. Smith and Andrew J. Volstead as the two men who at present wield the most influence on the spirits of the nation...
...Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after...