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Representing the actor's point of view, Brandon Tynan soundly asserted that the theatre "was not essentially to blame for the life it portrays." Since the drama "expresses the life of the nation .... it is ineffectual to throw stones at the mirror." He justly called Boston's censorship system "condemnation without representation", for, at present theatres may have their licenses revoked as well as their plays banned without even the pretense of a hearing. It is remarkable that such undemocratic treatment should have continued almost undisputed for twenty-one years...
...London Daily Mirror, Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," printed an editorial entitled "Leave Them Alone." Simultaneously he covered his front page with Lindbergh news supplied by his watchful reporters...
...English Composition instructors fall to realize that the primary consideration of writing and conversation is to arrive at truth, whether it be merely the truth shown by holding the mirror to life objectively or to one's own mind, or whether it be by the blazing of new trails of thought by rigorous and logical analysis, then their task certainly cannot be properly conceived. At present my impression is that certainly sent my impression is that the light-hearted, superficial but clever boy, given to extremes in thought and dress, is overrated and that the immature but serious boy struggling...
...confreres cited the Englewood pic-ture-taking episode reported in the New York Times as an example of yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks on the New Deal and aliens. Wrote he in part...
...Hearst's New York Mirror is currently drumming up circulation and sympathy for Hauptmann by printing exclusively his "sloppily sentimental" autobiography. "And Hearst talks of vermin...