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Hollis--"Autumn Croucs." The love saga of an English school teacher makes a pleasant if not an exhilarating play that manages to be sentimental without dripping noticeably...
...life as head of Harvard is limited to his academic struggles, and not until a later chapter is the other side of his life revealed. At first one may question this manner of narration, but had the details of his non-official life been included in the saga of his official duties, an extremely interesting story of education would have been impeded by irrelevancy...
...almost the virulence which the man himself would have employed in scorching a commercial enemy. Bonfils and his "Denver Post" have been held up in magazines and less full-blooded papers as the dual climax of bawdy journalism; they have been ridiculed as cranks and denounced as blackmailers their saga has been amplified and coloured even beyond its own rich Western blood-hue. And I refer to the Post anthropomorphically with reason; Bonfils dubbed it "The Big Brother," and such it remains...
...said, further, that one can find little fault with Mr. Starrett's mode of selection. As far as is possible within 200 pages, he has touched upon all the interesting aspects of the Holmes saga. Illustrators, parodists, actors, imitators,--all come under his facile pen. One must conclude that, if Mr. Starrett has been a little too willing to be naive, his naivete has at least the merit of being understood; and that for the rest, his biography is vivacious and readable...
...country drifts into its fourth year of depression, the public has taken seriously to wearing sackcloth and ashes. The current movies at the University Theatre indicate that this flagellation has become quite strong. In "The Power and the Glory" (showing today) we have the traditional American saga of the lowly working man rising from the ranks by diligence and effort to become President not only of one railroad but of many railroads. This has always been desirable, glorious, the aim of all true Americans. Yet in the movie it is analyzed closely to show that it is vicious, wicked...