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Between Worlds is another German film (notwithstanding its "European" label). It is not as good as Dr. Caligari, having a more amphorus texture, more turgid symbolism, more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this...
Herbert H. Lord-"human, he hates to say 'No!'" (P. 6.) The most spectacular of our present-day stylists...
...American people will know that they are dealing with a system; that even though Hanna, Quay and Penrose are dead, their spirits go marching on in the personages of the Three Musketeers of present-day Republicanism? Butler, Stearns and Slemp. These bosses are 'doing business in the same old way, according...
...results: War news 17.9% Foriegn 1.2 Politics 6.4 Crime 3.1 Business 8.2 Sport 5.1 Society 2.3 Miscellaneous 11.1 All News 55.3 Editorials 3.9 Letters 3.2 All Opinion 7.1 Illustrations 3.1 Literature 2.4 Advertisements 32.1 The Newspapers of 1899 100% One Paul W. White then made a corresponding analysis of present-day journals for Editor and Publisher. He examined 19,200 columns of mattter from 110 newspapers in 63 cities. His results : Foreign news 2.3% Politics 6.5 Crime 4.9 Business 7.9 Sport 7.5 Theatre 1.5 Society 0.8 Radio 0.9 Miscellaneous .. . 8.2 All News 40.5 Editorials 2.2 Letters .. . 0.5 All Opinion...
...Republican party under present leadership has forgotten the principles upon which it was founded and become a party of hypocrisy and deceit. ... Its record lies in a wreckage of broken promises and repudiated pledges. . . . There never was such a flagrant betrayal of party promises, such a complete failure to solve present-day problems. . . . Not only have they attempted to increase the cost of living . . . but this Ad ministration has given encouragement to every effort to reduce the wages of the wage-earner and to in crease the profits of the conscience less gouger...