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...Silent Enemy (Burden-Chanler). Every schoolboy knows that the Indian has not yet quite vanished from the forests of the continent that was his. But no schoolbook, museum or government bureau will ever preserve the vestigial red man as this picture does. Few professionals could have made such a picture, nor could they quite destroy it with commercial cutting and retouching after the effort and money lavished upon it by courageous amateurs. It is the work of William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler, a young Harvard combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast...
...difficulties of 18th Century love. A little effort has been made and a good deal of money spent to present a moving picture in the manner of the historical stories that David Wark Griffith directed so successfully many years ago. But everything is stupidly done: the people are schoolbook figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march to the palace, the fight with the palace guards, are spoiled by bad detail. The carpenters, for instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors...
Flem David Sampson, Governor of Kentucky since Jan. 1, 1928 assumed among other duties that of seeing that Kentucky school children got new schoolbooks. He and the State textbook commission were soon flooded by 25 schoolbook publishers with sample copies. Partly because he is the only Republican high official in his administration, partly because his opponents were ignorant of publishing practice, Governor Sampson was indicted last month for receiving "gifts." Seven members of the textbook commission and all the sample-sending publishers were also indicted, it being known that the commissioners had sold the sample books they received for sums...
...would have been better if it had been, for Mr. Quick could have produced an exceedingly interesting volume by holding to the thread of history of contrast. It is a story of middle aged lion between a very young girls, who more firmly. As it is, by sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause of all the difficulty, for she is the worst-drawn character in the book; imported as she is from the stockroom of the modern author...