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...lack of confidence keeps them from the full investigations asserting faultless logical conclusions which would consummate all the desired changes. Yet this power over the malleable future may be an unsupportable presumption, a possibility which he discounts with disdain. His thesis is that with patience and care the film that now obscures the eyesight of intelligence can be cleared away. "When People in reasoning, they do so in obvious ways by violating obvious rules," he says. But it would seem that if the errors were obvious, even an intelligence with misgivings could have perceived and avoided them...
...film for the feature picture consists of several thousands feet of pictures taken during the past summer under the direction of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. By special arrangement with Edward B. Moss, Secretary of this association, the pictures have been secured for tonight...
...David Lloyd-George is worried, say the newspapers. A German moving picture, produced as propaganda for the German "naked culture" movement is about to be exhibited in England; and one of the most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...
...deep problem, even for a clever Welshman. Not only his political career, but his moral foundations are slipping under him. And although he may save the first by keeping the film out of England, he cannot escape his conscience, which tells him constantly that, whoever is right, he has done wrong, How Mr. Lloyd-George must regret ever having gone to Germany...
Shore Leave. The last play in which David Belasco presented Frances Starr was the basis for this film play. The interest is shifted to focus on the leading man capably played by Richard Barthlemess. He is a member of the U. S. Navy who makes the acquaintance, one day on leave, of a spinster seamstress. She falls in love with him. He promises to come back to her and eventually does. The U. S. Navy in person assisted in the filming of many scenes. "Cripes" and "spigotty" are givtn as U. S. sailor talk. The net entertainment profit is very...