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...explanation is simple Mr. and Mrs. Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept...
...mangling of this "myth" many Democratic journalists have dedicated their writing-none more vigorously than Frank R. Kent, Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Each day his Washington despatches appear in the Sun; in them the President looks very much as if viewed through the wrong end of an opera glass. Is a White House conference "muzzled," does a flood emergency inspire no extra session of Congress, Mr. Kent sharply, succinctly gives the anti-Administration aspect of the occurrence...
STARTLING in the wrong direction necessitates an immediate right about face or a long journey and a difficult one across sterile fields. Ellis Parker Butler wrote "Pigs Is Pigs", a concession to a tasteless whim, and has continued along that road of supposed humor ever since...
They were wrong; they were soldiers and fighters as well. They stood with courage the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune of the decade that followed. And at the time they did perhaps not fully perceive that Tonio Kroeger's last word was not the same hopeless gesture as was the one at the end of "Buddenbrooks". There was something quite hopeful and very determined about it. And this positive feature became apparent also in the author's future production...
Closed Gates (Jane Novak, Johnny Harron). This should be a good lesson to erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees...