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...COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION- George Soule-Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of horrifying future events, it remains the most ferocious tiger of them all. Unalarmed by roars that are still caged Author Soule has examined the nature of the beast, pointed out the size and thickness of the bars, and in the calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution...
...more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America went to Asia. By the time the picture has run its course, so simple a thing as the coralling...
...wife and child for a summer vacation in Europe. He expects to tour the continent by automobile and promises to be on the lookout for all the outstanding ball-toters that may be lying around loose. He may even pick up some plays that will fool the Princeton Tiger when that dangerous beast invades the Stadium next fall...
...Japanese were near, the winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
...ancient Europe. Because he saw a vision he felt the people could not perish. In this spirit he sought to make a peace with the aid of a politician who had received his mandate from the people on the platform of "Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people. It was a dreary peace. Perhaps the gayest note was at the signing when for the first...