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...wholeheartedly for intervening in the conflict on the side of the Allies. There was not room for Constantine and his Premier, so Venizelos was dismissed. For two years, cabinet succeeded cabinet with bewildering rapidity until Constantine was himself dismissed. His son Alexandros succeeded to the throne, but later a monkey bit him and he died...
...White Monkey. Barbara La Marr is one of those inexplicable personages of the cinema who do not seem to belong. She is not beautiful and certainly not a good actress. Why they placed her in this film translation of Mr. Galsworthy's story remains a mystery. Most of the other characters are miscast-if you like them to stick to the originals. For those who have not read Mr. Galsworthy, and really are not just sure who he is, the picture may serve. Are Parents People? The week's cheers must be devoted to this discussion of divorce...
...longer be responsible for any debts which my wife may contract. Signed, John Doe." The House of Lords might very well have taken one of these notices for a text--it would have been more dignified than the description of woman's legal status as that of a "pet monkey". However true it may be, in or out of law, it should never have been given such official sanction. Much better to have said pet parrot, or any other innocuous animal...
...Chester Noyes Greenough" can stay, proctors in Standish Hall decided recently. Chester is a marmoset--one of the monkey family, and the pet of the Freshmen. But Chester's cousin, J. Leslie Hotson McGrew, a ring-tailed monkey, who was less fortunate, was banished some time...
...GREAT GATSBY-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner-($2.00). Still the brightest boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely...