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...light philosophy, "Shavings" himself, the kindly, absent minded toy-maker, is usually engaged in trying to unite the village feudists, Captain Sam Hunniwell and Phineas Babbitt, and eventually he succeeds when Leander Babbitt and Maude Hunniwell decide to be married. There are several other parallel themes, but the plot is not important, nor is it intended...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Discussing with high hilarity the error of selecting one's cemetery plot before falling finally...
...embodied is not an expression of blatant "modernity", but is rather a hallowing of old traditions and braver days. Each of us has, at some time or other, secretly wished for a return of the days of the America that was--the America whose husbandmen tilled each his own plot of soil, and whose sailors ploughed furrows through all the seven seas; the spirit and solidity that existed, as Mr. Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example the old seaport of Middlehaven...
...work with her as a measure of self-defense and retaliation, Geoffrey introduces Edgar Fuller, who comes from Ohio or Oregon or somewhere to study elocution. The resulting mix-up, due entirely to the super-sensitiveness of the high strung, emotional people involved, is very amusing, and the whole plot is worked out in the cleverest style imaginable. The dialogue is witty and altogether up to date; scarcely a line fails to contribute something in the way of good-humored satire or fantastic nonsense...
...responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...