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...says: "Unquestionably Snatch has been engaged in commerce, for no one can deny that he has done something. And precedent is abundant that doing anything is commerce. Thus, cows ranging back and forth over State lines because their owners have neglected to fence them in are engaged in commerce (Thornton v. U. S.). . . . However, Snatch is technical. He says that commerce has to do with trade, business, commercial enterprise, adventure involving profit or loss...
Current problem of the cinema industry in England is whether the U. S. talent that it is now importing will supply it with a trace of Hollywood dash. Second production of enterprising Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s London studio, with an American author (Zoe Akins), director (Thornton Freeland) and two Hollywood principals, Accused suggests that, on the contrary, England may infect Hollywood emigres with that dignified lethargy that has been the drawback of so many British pictures in the past. Well-acted by conscientious members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions...
...event commemorated in innumerable subsequent fire drills. Altogether Rosemary has educated some 1,800 girls from prosperous families, including Mrs. Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Jacob Gould Schurman's daughter Barbara Rose, Thomas Alexander MelIon's daughter Elizabeth and Lady Thornton, youthful relict of the president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad...
During the War of 1812, when British soldiers were firing Washington, a group of invaders arrived before the Patent Office, ready to apply the torch. Out on the portico strode Superintendent William Thornton, puffing and glowering. Bellowed he: "This is the emporium of the arts and sciences of America. Don't burn it!" The British commander stared, saluted, led his troops away...
Fulfillment of this promise finds Thornton transformed into a callous and ugly-tempered bully. Preparations are made for a beating to be administered at Thornton's direction, to a onetime friend of his who "failed to salute the War Dead" and was tattled on by a toady. An officer who might have intervened leaves the room with the admonition: "Be careful, fellows." The victim is then tied to a double-deck bed, burned with a cigarette, given 18 lashes with a whip, hospitalized. The outraged medical officer demands that Thornton be expelled, threatens to resign and expose the school...