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...Craig '25, song writer, who recently exposed the "Weary River" song theft to the CRIMSON, is at resent in New York City where he is completing arrangements to bring suit against Louis Silvers for using one of the songs from the 1925 Hasty Pudding Show for the current Richard Barthelmess movie production. Craig has as his lawyers Paul N. Turner, who is the most prominent attorney in America to handle cases for authors and actors. Turner is bringing a combined suit in Craig's name against Warner Bros. Company and Irving Berlin, who later copyrighted the song illegally...
...long been axiomatic that for fatuous stupidity the Advocate is a rare lit'ry nonesuch, but for sour and futile impertinence the current issue hasn't even a competitor. There seems to be such an effluvium of decomposition about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...
...Best current cinemas listed according to merit...
...Rumors current in several Boston newspapers yesterday to the effect that A. E. French '29, captain of last season's football team, would coach the Freshman gridiron players next fall, received neither confirmation nor denial from the Harvard authorities...
Patrons of the University Theatre will welcome the auspicious debut of the "talkie" in Harvard Square, especially if succeeding talking pictures are up to the standard of "Weary River", the current photoplay. Richard Barthelmess's pleasing singing voice is not marred in its new medium: Betty Compson's femininity is enhanced by the liquid notes falling from her sultry lips. The orchestral accompaniment adds to the realism of this juxtaposition of hard-boiled night life on Broadway and the reformatory influences of Sing Sing prison...