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There can be little doubt that American agriculture is sadly in need of intelligent retrenchment and reorganization. Agricultural colleges are the logical nucleus for the development of such a movement. Certainly the examples of cultural state colleges in the west should suffice to convince them that they can perform no comparable service by the adoption of an A.B. degree. Such a course would tend to swell the growing number of the educated unemployed who have long since discovered that a sheepskin may cover a shorn lamb...
Most people know about the Mills Brothers now because they perform over the radio twice a week for Vapex. They sing in trick quartet fashion and when it pleases them they can simulate perfectly a tuba, a trumpet and a pair of saxophones. Their voices, unaided, are too small for vaudeville. But they use their radio technique, huddle around an amplifier-microphone...
Arliss, whose long-range eavesdroppings have previously prompted him to perform other sly philanthropies, releases her. When the picture ends he is strumming on an organ and apparently contemplating matrimony with a sympathetic widow (Violet Heming...
...Hatchet Man (First National). So convincingly did Edward G. Robinson perform in Little Caesar and Smart Money that he, rather than Alphonse Capone or the late John ("Legs") Diamond, has become the prototype of the U. S. gangster. When cinemaddicts read of the doings in the underworld, they form an immediate picture of Edward G. Robinson operating a machine gun in Chicago, a distillery in Manhattan or a poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco...
...time, although a six point handicap gave Harvard a good start. The furious onslaught of the Cavairy in the last chukker resulted in the two deciding goals which gave them the trophy honors. This was the Crimson's last league game of the season, but it will continue to perform on the Armory tanbark in intercollegiate contests, starting with the Princeton tilt next week, the first polo game with the Tiger since...