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Hands Up. Famous players nave taken their newest comedian and wound him round with a Civil War burlesque. The action is somewhat mischievously placed in Utah, and Brigham Young and most of his wives are added for eccentric complication. The comedian is Raymond Griffith and the play has a double happy-ending. Thanks to the proximity of Salt Lake City, the hero is permitted to marry both his sweethearts...
That Royle Girl. Carol Dempster is just about on the verge of becoming a movie actress of consider, able consequence. It was D. W Griffith who discovered her, and the same D. W, Griffith directs her in this film. Perhaps it is not one of Mr. Griffith's best. He is directing for Famous Players and apparently has to get out so many pictures a year. It is, however, one of Miss Dempster's best and that is of immense importance. She plays a newsgirl who grows up to be a model and subsequently an actress. Also included...
Infatuation. Titles are running badly this week. This is what they called Somerset Maugham's Caesar's Wife. It tells of an English minister to Egypt whose pretty wife fell in love with a pretty undersecretary. Corinne Griffith and Percy Marmont make it good enough...
Major John L. Griffith of Chicago found it out. He made a survey of baseball for the National Amateur Athletic Federation. He questioned 10,000 athletic directors of elementary schools, high schools, colleges, welfare organizations; questioned sporting editors, coaches, sporting-goods manufacturers, and the Young Idea itself. He found that little Tatterbreeches of the fifth grade and gawky Longpants of first-year high school no longer aim to be Ty Cobbs and Walter Johnsons when they grow up. Their aspirations, in order of prevalence, are to Red Grangeship, fame as a basketball player and Paavo Nurmidom. Baseball comes fourth...
...Major Griffith was conducting his survey with a preconceived notion. Representative of a body devoted to the defense of amateur ideals in sport, his purpose was to show how professionalism in a sport hurts that sport. His summary of the case was: "Baseball is no longer the national sport for amateurs." A not unreasonable conclusion and certainly a salutary one, but one that appeared to leave out of the reckoning other possibilities...