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Louise Fazenda has been doing cute comedy on the screen so long that we are getting a little bit tired of her. Dressed in a man's sailor outfit she is repeatedly outguessed by a most intelligent dog who carries fifty thousand dollars around in his mouth during three quarters of the picture. This is scarcely amusing, but it's great from the standpoint of canine efficiency...
...turned to a discussion of the stage and the screen. "I though," she continued, "that the stage and movie life would be wild and exciting, but when I went to my first picture I found that they were all just as business-like as in the office where I had spent my time. But these people are so different They are so much more human, and so much less cold blooded. One cannot realize how surprised I was when I got to know the exponents of the imitating profession." Miss Lanphier, however, is not required to do much imitating...
...sample" pupils. Each test was conducted by "a citizen with practical knowledge of the subject under consideration." One Elmer Stevens examined the clothes, teeth, hair and general presentability of the "samples." Robbert McMurdy tested them in the use of common tools; he asked them to repair a window screen. John W. Ogren of the Association of Commerce delivered a ten-minute speech on "What the Public Expects of Its Schools," and the pupils were asked to tell what had impressed them about the speech. Carl Bismarck Roden, of the Public Library made them look up the life of John Quincy...
...next topic of discussion was the stage or screen career of a champion. "There is a lot of superfluous comment," he declared, "about athletes acting before footlights or camera, and it is wholly unjustified. A man's abilities are his own and his reputation is his own. So when a man, after receiving some publicity in athletics, chooses the stage or the screen for his career, he should be allowed to carry it out without criticism for he must make a living. In other professions besides acting, these accusations are not made. When made, they are the fault of this...
...screen presentation of life at Harvard is under contemplation, according to an announcement made yesterday by William A. Orr, representative of the Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Company...