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HIGH GROUND ? Jonathan Brooks ? Bobbs Merrill ($2). Liberally educated in all the finer shades of political corruption, U. S. newsreaders have a ready sympathetic throb for the lone graft fighter. To Author Brooks such a figure looms so large that he ventures to draw the picture of an upstanding, small-city editor with solemn, biblical strokes. James Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time...
Opening under every kind of auspicious omen, with the beneficent visits of the silent man of Washington and the Lone Eagle hardly a month away, the Sixth Pan-American Congress at Havana has so far discussed two points of importance in the western hemisphere, and has reached a deadlock on both points. The Pan-American method of settling such deadlocks amicably for both sides is a happy one. The matter is first threshed out around the conference table. After two, sometimes three days of eulogy, defamation and near duelling, the matter is put into the hands of a sub-committee...
...down into history with Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City, then, where in her curved palm woman holds the aesthetic vote...
...consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith was accustomed to lie under a dining room table, in La Grange, Ky., listening to the stories which his father, a Colonel, would read aloud by the light of a lone, economical candle. Later be became reporter, playwright, saw a movie in a nickel theatre. His first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested...
...Bryn Mawr daily, the "possible May Queens walked." The already amazed outsider is informed that "a few days later" the entire college selected six of these thirty-one prospects and that the survivors again "walked in the cloisters." After this second stage of training in queenly pedestrianism three lone surviving hikers are photographed, evidently being incapable of continuing their queenly "walking...