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Alumni of Cornell University are quite perturbed at the news that a moving picture producer is planning a film of Cornell life to be called "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as a delicate tribute to that institution's well known song. Visioning their Alma Mater under the glare of bright lights and reflecting that the estimable old lady is not as young as she might be these alumni seem to doubt that she will appear to advantage on the stage...
Last week in Manhattan, they laid the cornerstone of a new cinema-film exchange, a place where the commercial envoys of millions of people will go to buy or rent for them the latest articles in synthetic culture. At such ceremonies, important people gather-"producers" worth scads of money, "artists" whose faces are fabulous fortunes when properly painted, "directors" who have popular psychology minced up and pigeonholed to the last sentimental convulsion over a glycerine tear, "publicity directors" who have utterly exhausted all superlatives in describing the achievements of the rest...
...notables had not paid much attention to him, he was directly, almost solely, responsibile for their party. He had asked them beforehand if they would like to place something truly historic in that cornerstone and when they said "yes," had given them the first four strips of film that any man ever ran through a motion picture projector...
Fine Clothes. Ferenc Molnar wrote the play from which this film was taken. It was here called Fashions for Men and later, when the public began to fall away, Passions for Men. It is the story of a humble shop clerk who lost his wife and his money, and finally got what he wanted. It makes a pretty good picture, particularly since it is played by Lewis Stone, Percy Marmont, Alma Rubens and Raymond Griffith...
...Vanishing American. Another western film that adds to U. S. history as did The Covered Wagon, and gives in the process excellent entertainment as did that memorable film, has appeared on the subject of the American Indian. It would be wildly impolitic to prophesy that The Vanishing American will be as popular a film as The Covered Wagon. Only time can tell that. It is built on the same plan, acted (principally by Richard Dix) with similar excellence, and is continuously interesting. For this, the very finest type of motion picture, there can be naught but eulogy...