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Sensitive and excellent direction by E. A. Dupont, of Variety fame, titling in the manner of the early Griffith period, photography that wraps around Vienna a mist of adventure and half-remembered sorrow-these are the assets of Love Me and the World Is Mine. Its fault is too much facial contortion from pretty Mary Philbin and stalwart Norman Kerry, who otherwise adequately play the leads...
...student fails on examinations of work done in reading periods it will be his own fault. If he takes higher honors than be ever thought he could that, too will he his own fault, albeit a happier...
...embittered author of this rhyme, like many another ignorant layman who would share his point of view, was totally at fault. The physician, after his long and arduous apprenticeship, receives high wages if he attains competence. The lawyer, the merchant, even the thief, is re- compensed for the lean years of his schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able...
...CRIMSON editorials that the former CRIMSON editor and Rhodes scholar has the most fault to find; here it is that the professional atmosphere has done the most damage. "For", says Dean Nichols, "judgement, tact, good taste, discretion--all qualities essential to editorial columns are the qualities which develop only with age and experience. And it is not surprising that young men just turning twenty occasionally err in these respects. The unfortunate aspect of the situation is that in this day of far flung publicity those errors are flung broadeast through the country. And the graduates humiliated and ashamed and, perhaps...
...dramatic purist this is no doubt a fault; but for him who goes to the theatre primarily for the purpose of enjoying himself and relieving his examination-troubled spirit, it turns out to be a virtue. For while the first half of "The Road to Rome" leads through a pleasant landscape of hundred percent Roman-American rotarianism, by the end of the second milestone it has entered into the realm of true dramatic tragedy, enlivened here and there with sparkling and often rather caustic wit--which is quite as it should be. And in keeping with the subject, the scenery...