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...afraid there is no Conant here ... you cannot enter without an invitation ... How did you spell that again...
...famous American, Stephen Girard, who thought it best to exclude all ecclesiastical activities from the college which he founded in Philadelphia. Although we hardly succeeded in convincing one another, I fully enjoyed the President's way of discussing things, and I still feel myself under the spell of his charm...
...actress (Margalo Gillmore) who is revisited by her deplorable husband, Stanley Vance (Ernest Milton), a homosexual masochist and the most despicable villain who has set foot on the stage since Simon Legree. Returning from a long disappearance, Vance begins to exert his baleful influence over Miss Gillmore, a spell from which she had just recovered. He makes her tie his shoes, hustle for his breakfast, breaks her spirit. Both her brother (kinetic Basil Sydney) and her manager who loves her (William Harrigan) have good reason to kill Vance. But the job is finally done very adroitly in a room...
...father died when he was 16 and he had to leave the music school where he was studying to be a violinist and composing on the side. By himself he learned to play the 'cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later...
Perhaps these things are platitudinous, perhaps I err in presenting material which must be all too familiar to intelligent men. Certainly, those beatific doctrines which have earned Mr. John Dewey the gratitude of every politician have been thoroughly punctured. And if any literate men still remain beneath their spell, there is for the purpose of enlightenment Mr. John Chamberlain's brilliant analysis of the vicious circle which is their fallacy. If we have anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous...