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...real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous implications involved in the in justice of Grischa's imminent fate, he might have made a masterpiece. Instead he allowed the anecdote to remain personal. The Case of Sergeant Grischa further suffers from such imperfections as polyglot accents among the cast; the fre quent use of miniatures and fake outdoor sets, particularly in the earlier sequences; the absurd theatricality of little...
...Professor Friedrich replied, "Yes; the pernicious phrase 'magnificent isolation' has blinded many Americans to the true state of things. President Hoover has said that one American in ten is dependent on our foreign trade. The matter cannot be stated as simply as that, but it is certain that the fate of American goods exported abroad and confronted by European tariffs has great bearing on American domestic industries...
...damp rot." Its novelty is gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being carried out to the ship to be sent home while his successor, doomed for a similar fate, enters, ambitious and punctilious, in crisp white ducks...
According to reliable information Yale has decided to put her foot firmly on any student rioting in New Haven. Suspension for one year is the fate of any man who is a participant or in any way connected with a student riot. This rule is manifestly the essence of paternalistic supervision. If the American college student is to be considered as "grown up" and to be treated as a person of mature years and judgment, then such a penalty as that handed out by the New Haven authorities, though harsh, may be justified in instances when actual damage to property...
...make to save the companies from the destruction and dismemberment of receivership into which their powerful enemies are bent upon plunging them?" Cineman William Fox asked this question last week-another appeal to his stockholders, perhaps the last before they gather on March 5 to decide the fate of Fox Films & Fox Theatres. Desperate as the Fox appeal sounded, Cineman Fox must have gained at least some slight assurance last week from the thought that his famed and feared Lawyer Samuel Untermyer was bending his gaze on the Fox dilemma. Lawyer Untermyer had already dismissed a reorganization plan devised...