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With the success of "Silver Dollar." "Cavalcade," and other epics in mind, producers have outdone themselves in the manufacture of this type of film. "Song of the Eagle," now showing at the Met, is a better than average example of the craze. Instead of dealing with an era from the point of view of the country at large, this picture portrays the brewing industry from the succulent pre-war days to the frothy present, as exemplified by experiences of the Hoffman family, master brewers...
...playing when dauphin with his Yo-Yo-a child's top so made that when thrown from the hand it starts to spin as its string unwinds, then winds up the string on itself and returns to the hand. During the past two years a Yo-Yo craze has swept Europe. Among smart Parisians, Berliners and Londoners are hundreds of exalted Yo-Yo addicts, notably Edward of Wales. Just before Edouard Herriot fell as Premier of France, a Paris weekly pictured his frantic appeals to all sections of the Chamber of Deputies by printing a composite photograph in which...
About five years ago, at the height of the Currier & Ives craze, knowing dealers began buying up Rogers groups wherever they could find them. What the Lotos Club had to show last week were not the flyspecked, chocolate colored plaster casts of the average collection but the heavy bronze originals from which these casts were made, property of Miss Katherine Rogers, the sculptor's daughter...
Everything considered, the present decline in the student body of the universities is by no means a serious blow. In the first place, colleges have been, undoubtedly, overcrowded in the past due to the modern craze for a college education. This overcrowding has led in large measure to a lowering of standards or to the formation of unpleasantly routine arrangements. It is a truism to say that the best work is done by the more able, and not by the more numerous. In addition to weeding out, the depression has caused students in general to adopt a more serious attitude...
...floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack or "craze," is of rough- surfaced iron, | in. thick, coated with enamel. A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes...