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There is a book, of course, the work of J. C. Murphy '25, and W. S. Martin '26. It is a good book as Pudding books go; that is, it writes a plot to fit a scant collection of people, and a most attractive equipment of scenery, and the number of trick doors in the set, and the numbers and specialties in the score, and keeps its head and its temper through all this wrestling, occasionally cocking a humorous eye up at its assailants with a line like. "You must have some vices--do you row?" or "Our family dates...
...have many things to praise and only one to censure. The music is great and several of the songs may be hits. The plot is just what is needed and has not enough bulk to be obtrusive. All the dancing is remarkable...
...Senator Walsh charged the interests with an organized plot to discredit Congress as a means of putting through the "Mellon" plan...
...colossal travel picture from lands where travelers never go. In the heart of the continent of Asia there are millions and millions of miles inhabited only by semi-civilized nomads. The search of these nomads for their own food, for their cattle's fodder is the plot of this peculiar picture. There are no actors, just tribes and herds, mountains...
School for Wives. Leonard Merrick wrote a novel called The House of Lynch. Stripped of Mr. Merrick's literary insulation, the wires of the plot seem a bit bare and shiny. Struggling artist, rich wife. He won't take her money; she goes home to papa. She is lonely; gives away her money, returns to struggling artist...