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...budding biography for an un-biographed President...
Flaming Youth endeavors to establish that young men and maidens wild are going up in the smoke of their own cigarettes. It contains all the rabble of trashy devices which cinema directors employ traditionally to indicate the younger degeneration, even to the midnight bathing party. All this is un-tunate, since the story of the socially rabid mother who on her deathbed persuaded her physician to write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports...
...less dour. The senior Hardin spent his life and himself in the fight for Prohibition-his very iron honesty ruined his buggy-business. Paul was more successful-but his father's spirit conquered in him, at last, when, offered an opportunity to escape from the cords of an un-happy marriage and find freedom with the charming and pagan Evelyn, the austere and self-tormenting faith of his forebears reasserted itself in his soul and made him refuse the chance. A solidly excellent novel, presenting a characteristic sector of American life with strict impartiality-marred chiefly by excessive length...
There is no tyrant so absolute as an editor within the confines of his paper. His slaves tremble at his glance. One word from him makes or un-makes a nobly formed article. If he's so inclined, there is no end to the whims which become solemn law by his decree. If he is so inclined, and has wisdom, he may make far-reaching innovations. There are thousands of these petty tyrants throughout the country. Readers sojourning in the principality of one, are often totally unaware of what is a capital offence in another-or what, by royal...
...this afternoon's play, and M. Andre Perrin, coach of the production announced last night the following revised list of the characters of the play: de Chantelour J. D. Lodge '25 Painteau F. H. Buhler '25 de Movard J. R. Robinson '25 des Vergettes H. F. Potter '24 Un Laquais Ernest Iselin '26 Marquise de Cernois Miss Elizabeth Beal Helene de Chantelour Miss Ethel Thayer Renee do Cernois Miss Emily Sears Julie Miss Helen Grew...