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After the biting criticism and scathing sarcasm poured from every corner of America on our defenseless pictures, this flattering attention from the artistically inclined Latins must be like myrrh and frankincense to the harassed directors and producers. With films barred from first one state and then another on account of an actor's misdemeanors or an actress' imprudence, it must be comforting to know that the Brazilians prefer American films because they show "American life", and never fail to point a moral! To the jaded American move-goer, this moralizing is usually the last straw which urges him to demand...
...less than six weeks a Grand Dragon and a Titan have been put under arrest and charged with rioting four Klansmen have confessed to flogging a defenseless citizen and have been sentenced to two years each in the State penitentiary, many others have been bound over to the district courts, the fiery cross destroyed, and on September 10 the Invisible Empire has announced that all masked parades and meetings will be "deferred." JAMES S. KAUFMAN...
Incidentally, Helen is to be congratulated on having retained her maiden name in this new state of wedlock; "A Face 'mid the Flames" would not have been unexpected, or some such bit of "skimble-skamble stuff." Especially after what happened to the defenseless "Admirable Crichton...
...miscalculation which resulted in the eventless, wholesale roundup seems to have been caused by the excellence of the bootleggers' product. The army of thirty lumberjacks, who were apparently counted on to repulse the officers, was paralyzed by the liquor. Had there been less kick in the product, the hapless, defenseless bootleggers might have fulfilled their anticipation of stimulating the courage of their constituents rather than seeing all the available bravery drowned in the gutter...
...communication in today's issue, Mr. Hudson Maxim replies to the CRIMSON'S criticism of the free distribution of his book, "Defenseless America," to the Senior class. He begins his answer with the statement that even though his advice is mistaken, "it does no harm to warn the country of dangers that do not exist." Does a warning which calls for a radical change in the national policy, involving the expenditure of millions of dollars, do no harm if it happens to be based on false assumptions...