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Lord Jeff (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Freddie Bartholomew, who was temporarily out of the courts last week, has his difficulties in real life, but they are not to be compared with the miseries of his childhood in the cinema. He experienced beatings and neglect in David Copperfield, seasickness in Captains Courageous, a black eye in Little Lord Fauntleroy and kidnapping in Kidnapped. To this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment...
Ever since President Roosevelt appointed him a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, George Henry Payne has preached that radio broadcasters have an eye only to profits, neglect "education and culture." Something else Commissioner Payne dislikes is radio lobbyists. He says he can't leave his office without stumbling over three or four of them...
...this and number 2 on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Cervantes. The defect of the other Spanish literature courses is that there is too much emphasis on the mechanics of translation. Whittem, and to a lesser degree Rivera, are both at their best on composition and tend to neglect the literary aspect of their material...
...education attempts to cultivate children's minds and bodies, lets their emotions grow like weeds or wildflowers. The results of this neglect, think mental hygienists, appear in the appallingly high rates of U. S. divorce, crime and insanity, in a national jitteriness. Last week the American Council on Education published a report* proposing that the schools pay as much attention to children's emotions as to the three...
...Students need to be told how easily course work can accumulate, and lucky is that undergraduate who has escaped the horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick...