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Seventh Heaven (Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell). Paris of the slums, of sewer cleaners, of War time. In this Paris live Diane the pathetic waif of the streets, Chico, the poet philosopher of the sewers, who takes her to his attic under the stars, Papa Boule who cares for Diane while Chico is fighting les Boches ק all the gay and pathetic characters of Austin Strong's play, as lovable as ever in splendid adaptation. Janet Gaynor as a little creature who believes steadfastly in her bon Dieu, Charles Farrell as blustering, "very remarkable fellow" Chico, are consistently true...
There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...
...race, or any other event," the Attic sage reasons, "And what does it benefit the city? Very unfairly, indeed, is it that mere brawn is considered superior to goedly wisdom...
Most picturesque of the fathers of television is Captain John L. Baird (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926), long-haired, bespectacled Scotsman, who gave birth to his ideas in an attic. Inventor Baird prefers baggy, woolly suits with a potent plaid; he has been so heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...
...week the anniversary of the death of "the greatest Jew of modern times"- was recognized by many admiring people throughout the world (TiME, Mar. 7). Your tribute to the memory of this great, good man was to publish an article under the head EDUCATION, in which you pictured an attic recluse spending his leisure hours in demoniac glee watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention on the incidental...