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...tedious subjects taught in grammar school, few are duller or more irksome than penmanship. Nevertheless it has always been taught on the presumption that good legible hand writing can be learned in no other way. Last week this theory was flouted (as at a psychologists' meeting was flouted the more modern theory that punishment is bad for chil dren-see p. 22) by Dr. Ralph Haefner of Columbia University in a book* based upon studies by Dr. Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia and Dr. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago. For two years these pedagogs experimented...
...Duller but more important than the seating bicker were the sidelights of the Wet v. Dry struggle. Many of Chicago's saloons had been closed or had closed voluntarily for the duration of the convention, but the dampness of anti-Prohibition agitation was rife...
...behind Jupiter. Visible were Callisto, Io and Europa. Europa revolved into occultation. Callisto then proceeded into the planetary shadow where it was eclipsed. Only Io then was visible until Ganymede came out from behind Jupiter. Then Io began its transit across the face of Jupiter whose brightness made the duller satellite invisible, and Ganymede passed into the eclipsing shadow. Then all moonless looked nine-mooned Planet Jupiter...
...present state of dramatic criticism he finds to be rather lamentable, censorship stupid and audiences daily growing duller. Yet there is O'Neill who will save the theatre from complete disintegration because he has "size." As for Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...
Show Girl in Hollywood (First National). The adventures of Joseph Patrick McEvoy's laboriously vivacious heroine are continued in a sequel to Show Girl which is rather duller than its predecessor. Alice White's saucy face and impish dancing tide over long sequences of shoptalk garnished with heavy-handed wit. Best role: Blanche Sweet as a fading beauty of the screen who sings a song to the effect that "there is a tear for every smile in Hollywood...