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Certainly "Lilies of the Field" is vastly more successful than the Idler's venture last year with the banal pretentiousness of Phillip Barry's "Hotel Universe." Tonight's performance, which will be the last, will doubtless profit from the experience of the first, and deserves an increased attendance. There will be dancing after the performance...
...enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called an "iron man." NcNamara has been the iron man of bicycle riders for 15 years. Grown somewhat rusty with age, he is still able to keep up with the field when teamed with a good sprinter. He enjoys six-day races, voiced no intention of retiring after...
...Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...
...general portrait. There are those at Yale who have become firmly convinced, not of the value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very name, they will be amazed to find themselves in a place where a genuine interest is taken in them and in their aims. And if they...
...visit him. She hasn't, of course, and Miss Chatterton, as a singer in a low resort, undertakes to help the soldier retain his illusion. Finally, the deception is discovered, the hero regains his sight, and upon seeing his deceiver, forgives her, etc., etc. "The Magnificent Lie" is banal, taxing all credulity, and most ineffectively acted...