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...Auvergne, Ark.-has acquired several thousand acres of land by his own effort. His son bought an airplane last year! Of course the tenant system has its abuses and abusers. So has everything else. But for the thrifty, there is no more independent means of life nor certain mode of economic advancement...
...calm, luminous face, including that of the plump, masterful Mother Superior. Accompanied by adroitly "dubbed" dialog, church music and a commentary by a U. S. priest named Rev. Matthew Kelly, the picture presents no conflict, reaches no climax, accepts without demur the phenomenon of women adopting a medieval mode of life to become mystical brides of Christ. Much of Cloistered was filmed in a churchly murk illumined with twinkling candles and rare shafts of sunlight. Arresting shots: nuns wielding pickaxes, laying bricks, pecking typewriters, operating a printing press; penitents sewing under the watchful eyes of Magdalens; a single nun prostrating...
...that regulation of the personnel and practices of protective committees in connection with municipal debt readjustments is absolutely essential. This conclusion is amply supported by the many instances cited of committees whose members have interests adverse to those of the investors whom they purport to represent; of committees whose mode of organization and subsequent activities are calculated to discourage the investigation and prosecution of possible causes of action in favor of bondholders or of the debtor; of committees which have profited extensively from their trust by voting themselves payments for expenses, compensation and otherwise; of committees which have distributed patronage...
Molecule Magnets. It has been known for years that nerve impulses are electric in nature. But the mode of transmission remained obscure. It was wrong to picture a current passing along a nerve fibre as if through a metallic conductor. Since 1926 Dr. Edwin Joseph Colin and his associates at Harvard have been looking for a better picture. Last week he announced important progress...
Although the film is played in modern dress, its humor is of another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their...