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...Viking. Although the odd, no-colored daylight of the camera suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even...
...interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient of obstructionism. It is on Mr. Walker, however, that the destinies of Blair & Co. most vitally depend. In an association, theoretically, of equals, Mr. Walker stands unquestionably a superior. He it is who decides where...
...most sacred treasures of American literature. We all know that it was delivered upon a most solemn occasion and was written to dedicate a National Cemetery for those who gave all on that great battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present in the Stadium that afternoon were grieved to hear a Harvard man make such a blunder. We were delighted that the elements reduced his audience to a minimum...
...second thought, though not hinted at in the Smith speech, suggested itself as follows: Smith thinks the Congress is the medium through which the Democracy should start working up to 1932. The Democrats are now a weak minority in the Congress. Smith is "just as anxious" as before his nomination to see the Democrats come to glory. Smith has resolved never again to seek public office. But, if his anxiety for his party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter...
WHERE do we go from here?" is asked not only by the would-be Bohemian in a material way, but by all civilization in a much more searching fashion. The Guild proved a medium for expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have...