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...Republic will not change materially the present form of government, which has, in effect, come as close to the Western interpretation of a republic as an Eastern country without any previous experience in popular government could be expected to do. The Constitution, as understood, debars a member of the Royal House from holding either military or civil office, and the State is separated from the Church. The National Assembly is shorn of its direct executive authority, but the Cabinet, which transplants the Council of Commissioners, will be directly responsible, not individually KS Commissioners, but collectively as a Cabinet...
...demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter-Alice Terry is a suave and lovely aristocrat-all in all, here for once, is a super picture that even a press-agent can hardly super-adjective to death...
...Proper observance of hygienic laws is the only sure way of prolonging life. "There is as yet no royal road to rejuvenation...
...Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Le Costume Royal, is not a publisher of newspapers. In that respect William Randolph Hearst has the better of him. Mr. Hearst, ever watchful for financial gain, makes use of his newspapers to boost his magazines. To this Mr. Nast expresses no objection. But when Mr. Hearst's press undertook to puff Hearst magazines at Mr. Nast's expense, Mr. Nast rose in dignified wrath...
Died. Sir J. Halliday Groom, 76, at Edinburgh. He was former President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, once President of the British Gynecological Society, three times President of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society...