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...veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...
Like so much featherbrained Paris fun which leads on to the fashion, the mode started with a Mae West Party given on the platform restaurant of the Eiffel Tower by Mrs. (not Mme.J Denys Trefusis. She is by birth one of those Keppels who keep up the tone of British aristocracy. Despite, or perhaps because of, their proud Dutch blood, the Keppels produced two grooms-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales...
...considers to be the most satisfactory method of balancing the H.A.A. budget for the coming year. By meeting these problems and many others the Council might approach a fulfillment of the ends for which it was created, but in order to do so, it must at once reorganize its mode of procedure, expand, and open its actions fully to the student view...
...Critic has failed to maintain the policies which formed its original excuse for being; it has to a large extent, ceased "to criticize the University and its policies." While essays on general subjects of national or international interest are unquestionably readable, they do not represent the most efficacious mode of expression of a publication such as the Critic. It is the only undergraduate publication devoted entirely to articles and essays; it is in touch with undergraduate affairs; while comments on the state of the world are best to be found in such magazines as the Nation and its more conservative...
...Marr whom she arranged to adopt two days before Miss La Marr's death. Reconciled to the fact that audiences will always find her writhing hands, her quavering voice, even her tragic smile peculiarly funny, she now sticks to comic roles, will presently appear in Maids a la Mode...