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...luncheon the President attended ceremonies commemorating the 250th anniversary of the day when Pére Marquette landed at Chicago. Then he proceeded to the stockyards, saw herds of blooded stock and crowds of enthusiastic people. At dinner in the evening, he spoke at Stock Yards Inn on the post-War troubles of livestock raisers. Fourteen hours after arriving in Chicago, the Presidential party started back for the Capital. ¶ On the return trip, B. & O. officials split the President's train in two at Willard, Ohio, and the through cars went ahead in a special section arriving...
...ranks were straggling and new. Since then he has widened the margin of his advance and stands unchallenged as Commanding Officer. This absolute leader in the film field has made another of his all too rare productions. To Germany he went to make it; took Germany's post-War hunger as his theme; two peasants are his personalities. Dealing in the oldest properties of drama-love and poverty - he has made an extraordinary film...
...Galsworthy Appraises the Post-War Generation...
...Significance. Mr. Galsworthy's method has always been to propound a question, wrap it up in a story, present both sides with equal eloquence, and then not answer it. In this case, the question has something to do with the relative values of the post-War generation and those that came before it. As fiction, this volume is not in its author's happiest vein. It is the latest and probably the least interesting addition to that formidable series, The Forsyte Saga. Mr. Galsworthy neither knows nor understands completely the society he is discussing. He is not himself...
With a pessimism natural in disappointment those who had vision of a glorious efflorescence of genius fear the bloodless dominion of my evalism. It is thought that literature and the arts cannot endure the blight of a new are of Babbitts But paradox as it is, the post-war idealists are almost too practical for practical purposes. If they would embody their ideals at once into institutions, they would take away the incentive needed for further progress. Given a vision plus an obstacle hindering its attainment, one has the true settings which makes for intellectual advancement...