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...work and play on the Riviera belongs to a comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something to do between dinner and bed. There is a master criminal named Malatroff who classifies...
...University Film Foundation has proved its scope to be practically without bounds. All sorts of pictures, from those of natives and animals of far-off and, consequently, romantic lands to the activities of normal Harvard undergraduates have been under the focus of the lenses of the Foundation. It is to be hoped that the Film Foundation will continue to receive the support which enables it to accomplish its pioneer task of making the movies more than an afternoon's diversion...
...CRIMSON pointed out in December somewhat in anticipation of the announcement of the plan, the system of divisional examinations employed at present in this department requires review of too broad a scope to allow maximum efficiency of results. The new plan provides a closer correlation of the three departments in the field. Also, by restricting the range of what exists as the present general examination within more specific limits it does away with the necessity for cramming an immense amount of material with which the student has no immediate concern other than a means to pass an examination. An added...
...sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation but of the same breadth of conception. Author Dos Passos' book sets a new mark for U. S. novelists to shoot...
...advent of Professor Hind, an art critic of recognized authority, is awaited in the confident expectation that the high standards set by previous incumbents of the chair in their interpretation of poetry in its-stricter sense will be maintained in the consideration of poetry in its broader scope...