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...should refer to it as a madhouse. They were saved from this scandalous impropriety by a sly wag of the Boulevards who whispered a knowing question in their ears: "Eh bien, Messieurs, avez-vous vu 'Les Folies Bourbon?'" As "The Folies Bourbon," the Chamber passed one of its most chaotic weeks...
Postponement. The Extraterritoriality Conference of the nine Powers (signatories to the Chinese treaties negotiated at President Harding's famed "Washington Disarmament Conference") was indefinitely postponed because of the extremely chaotic political situation now existing in China (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The conferees were to have assembled at Peking last week, where the Nine-Power Chinese Customs Conference is at present marking time owing to the impotence of "the Peking Gov- ernment of China," with which both conferences expected to deal...
...premier always a mathematician, but occasionally a poor financier, departed a Chamber too uncongenial to him and his "compromise cabinet". Thus he added another of those political gestures which of late have given France the appearance of governmental epilepsy. The French nation again finds itself in a more than chaotic condition...
...trouble lies in the fact that the term university has no definite meaning in America as it has on the Continent and in Great Britain. It can mean almost anything, since no copyright, legal or traditional, protects its use. Some American universities, the writer asserts, are nothing but "a chaotic mixture of primary, intermediate, industrial and theological classes." Others are "educational department stores with a kindergarten at one end and Noble Prize winners at the other, with all possible forms and varsities of schooling and training, practical and professional, in between, and a mail order annex besides...
...confidence he gained from ruling in his dream, has been pretty badly mangled on the screen. Matt Moore, able comedian, is miscast, being for one thing several years too old. The twists of character and the strange development of fantasy are lost. The film descends to the vague and chaotic level of slapstick comedy...