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...Golden State Milk Products Co. Judge Walter Perry Johnston announced he would grant a recess while Juror Lomax traveled 50 mi. to Willow Glen on an important mission. Several hours later Juror Lomax returned, climbed wearily into the jury box, told interested colleagues that hereafter Willow Glen's schoolchildren could look at an innocuous poster of a youth and maiden in scanty one-piece bathing suits...
...Mother's Day (May 8) in Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully has incident been used to characterize his charm, that it is climax enough when Jef never learns of her unfaithfulness at all. Good shot: Marceline, leaning from a window of the Riviera express, listening to schoolchildren sing "Jean de la Lune" and remembering her simple-hearted husband...
...survives the scandal. He even preserves the loyalty of his wife by placing upon her clothes, which she is packing to leave him, a sprig of rosemary. A potent agent in the cinema for what is Good, True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have rooted objections to sentimentalized history. Good shot : Arliss dancing...
...pictorial interpretations : Miss St. Denis in the Salome dance of Richard Strauss and an Oriental Dance Balinese by Wells Hively ; Mr. Shawn in dances to four oldtime U. S. songs and a fantastic Frohsinn (Cheerfulness) to music of Paul Linke. Together they danced a charming Idyll by Roy Stoughton. Schoolchildren danced a "visualization" of the first move ment of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony: a "synchoric orchestra" of dancers which was meant to parallel the instrumentation of the score. Then Miss St. Denis, surrounded by young men from the West Side Y. M. C. A., appeared as "The Prophetess...