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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Must Be Love (Colleen Moore). Fernie Schmidt was born in, and for twenty years inhabited, a delicatessen store. But a job at a perfume counter was her ideal. This she gratifies, but when her ambitious lover buys the very store in which Pappa Schmidt made $80,000, as the financial basis for their future marriage, limburger suddenly takes on the fragrance of attar of roses, pickles turn to rosettes, and Fernie, delighted, helps out in the store and back of it. Hoch die Delikatessen...
LORD RAINGO-Arnold Bennett- Dor an ($2). Born a commoner, buried a peer...
...nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came to him to follow that which they preferred or to which they were born. "God," said he, "is the one flame; eyes of men see it in different colors...
...book review was not intended to invade the field of the Phillips Brooks House and Professor Moore. The original intention was to explain that Mr. Mukerji had written a supremely beautiful book, in supremely distinguished English, on a supremely beautiful subject. But I am afraid it is a flower born either to bloom unseen or unappreciated, for it has not wit, sex appeal, or practical value...
...pull toward the Pacific. It broke into huge fragments, the Americas, Eurasia-Africa. Australasia, and Antarctica. The last, Antarctica, seems not to have moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid, with haltings and renewed sliding, toward the Pacific. The great mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength as the continental fragments slipped down over the earth's body. During the process of folding along the border of the invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were pouring out through the tension-cracks of the continental interior. The fissures, through which the lavas rose, became sealed with...