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...Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World; Broken Blossoms; Orphans of the Storm; America. Beau Sabreur. Two novels, both best sellers, both written by Captain Percival Christopher Wren, both somewhat similar in title, have been translated into cinema by the Paramount...
...reports in the paper of last Sunday's sermons betray an almost complete devotion to denunciation. Spiritual affairs were neglected for exaggerated portrayals of the menace of companionate marriage, agnosticism, militarism, and the holding of opinions instead of convictions. The churches, like the Salvation Army, might possibly devote more time to the harmony and volume of their figurative bands, and thus there is a probability that the sound of whacking umbrellas might be drowned out completely...
Bread And Fire-Charles Rumford Walker - Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). "You know," she said, "the one thing people can never forgive in one is a betrayal of one's class." Harris Burnham, hearing his aunt thus condemn his excursion into socialistic journalism, replies by going to work with the hunkies in a copper mill. His is a hard-muscled method of thought. He refuses to betray himself by betraying humanity in order to remain loyal to an artificial class distinction. The, to many persons, pleasantly remote life of working people interests him like a bride. Feeling this alien devotion...
...COOLIDGE ASSAILS TRAITOR NEWSPAPERS THAT BETRAY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT" and reported it, in part, thus...
...Your demand is without tact and inappropriate. When you write that you are all of the opinion that the position you took in the War was correct, you again betray a colossal ignorance of the fact that in all countries, without excepting the United States, statements are increasing in number from day to day which go to show that the United States fought for a bad cause...