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...Armistice. It tells of a French father whose son was killed in the conflict and who has been thriving ever since on his grief. He is a hero; he is to be elected to public office because the public has become so sympathetic with his sorrow. Just at the wrong moment the dead offspring turns up and trips...
Joanna. If you go to see this one, lay no blame here. It is cheap and purple philosophy about midnight bathing parties, why girls go wrong, and all that...
...tailor, who pines for romance and gets it through the medium of being kidnaped by pirates. A good deal of the comedy is based on Mr. Errol's noted knee, which gives out suddenly and often. Those in the smaller centres who have never seen this knee go wrong will be particularly amused...
There is nothing wrong seemingly with most lines of business or with the credit structure which sustains them. The advance in Reserve rates (TIME, Dec. 7) has so far exerted no appreciable effect on merchant or manufacturer, except to worry and puzzle him temporarily by the unexpected manner in which they were inaugurated...
...Macfall wrote of Negro life in all its comic fullness, yet refused to write the regulation Negro comic story. Saith Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist...