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...deeply religious, not in the ordinary sense-I never go to church-but I am religious when I am face to face with fate, when I have to make up my mind. Faith will move mountains-and a nation, like an individual, needs something to believe...
...Claudette Colbert still possesses her cultured charm and poise but falls to convince one that she recognizes the meaning of the electoral college. All in all a shadowy theme, which often descends into a musical revue, is graced by the presence of Cohan and rescued from as dreary a fate as that of "Washington Merry-go-round" by its very vivacity, not its consistency...
...some fond parents who secretly or openly hope that college may produce a charming daughter. As they survey the schools, they may find one place which stamps students with a definite personality and if it is the type which satisfies their definition of charm, the beloved daughter's fate is signed. Women's colleges have within the last decade declared an aggressive campaign for individuality among students. An attempt to alienate the type-situation is essayed through the cultivation of the critical spirit. There are everywhere, however, characters easily impressed and characters capable of impressing...
Courses offered at any college are not made to aid the doting father in his aspirations for his offspring. A "personality factory" must suffer the fate of "spinster factory." Should we perhaps advocate an institution to teach girls to sit gracefully by the fire--alone and another, to develop charm--for father? Radcliffe News-Daily...
Instead of telling his story straight out, Author Morley is at some pains, though ineffectually, to convince the reader that a casual acquaintance was so impressed by Hero Roe's unimpressive personality and fate that he determined to write a really microscopically fair biography of him. In spite of this unnecessary ring-around-a-rosy, the facts of the story gradually emerge. Roe was an ordinary but wide-eyed, simple young man. When he married Lucille, became a father, Manhattan apartment-dweller, traveling salesman for a big publisher, he thought everything was fine. But Lucille's clay...