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...scenic beauty with its panoramic views of the quietly appealing French countryside. The magnificent photography is in fact the film's chief virtue, for though the acting is capable and scenario well crystallized from the lengthy plot of the novel the picture is considerably protracted and it fails to maintain the serious aspects of the theme as it concentrates overmuch on satirizing the bourgeois mores of the unfortunate Madame Bovary. The comedy effects are good and the general effect is amusing, but its failure to bring out the fundamental problem which faces the heroine renders it unfortunately inconsequential. Flaubert...
From Massachusetts to California, from Soledad to South Africa, Harvard scientists maintain their science stations, studying everything from earthquakes to bryophites...
...placed on the study of economic plants, with one hundred acres of the Institutions devoted solely to these. This station has had influence on the economic destiny of Cuba, for the study of sugar cane has enabled the Cubans to produce a better grade of sugar cane and to maintain its place at the head of the sugar industry...
...national commander of the American Legion, one Edward A. Hayes, has again attacked Pacifism, Communism, un-Americanism (whatever that may be), and Radicalism. At the Miami jamboree he has also showed his displeasure with the American Veterans Association and the National Economy League because of their efforts to maintain the credit of the United States by bridling the porkbarrelism which these professed patriots wish to engage in to such an almost unlimited extent. In spite of their Americanism, which they loudly and self-righteously proclaim, the Legionaires would like to see the money in the Treasury portioned out to them...
...Public Library has a $50,000,000 endowment and is subsidized by the City of New York to maintain 48 branch libraries. Its best collections are those on baseball, poultry, the theatre, Americana, Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan and Isaak Walton. With 12,000 people in & out every day, its central building is probably the world's busiest...