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...happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about a proud but starving cinema hero-the virgin clay of emotion appears exclusively, great lumps of it. In general, Author McNeile's titles are better than his tales...
What is this Institute? It is not known yet. It is not known yet. On July 1, it comes into being for the first time. Two years ago, the Y. M. C. A. conceived the idea, in imitation of the Pan-Pacific Union, a local organization in Hawaii, but turned over the conception to a more general group for execution...
...reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson. She plays the young lady with such astonishing ability that all fears that Peter Pan would be her only claim to fame are gratefully laid aside, and another actress of the first rank is admitted to the small company of the actual artists. Wildfire. Racehorse pictures are inevitable. Racehorse pictures always balance the fortune of the lovers on the outcome of the runing. The right...
...little ditty, tenderly called "My June Girl," somewhere between the issue's covers, might well have been written in Tin Pan alley, or inserted in the humorous publication of Pomona college. It rather lacks Lampy's customary standard of dignity and originality and has an unpleasant scent of a very poor and backneyed lyric which has been written and rewritten for 10,009 popular pianos and pianolas...
...Maria Orellana, President of the Republic of Guatemala, adjusted his ear to music. With great discernment, he selected the best nine-man Marimba Orchestra in Guatemala City. Last week, it arrived in Washington to play for Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge at the reception of the Pan-American Union in their honor...