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At London General Pershing met George V,? was ceremoniously received by high officials. Moving on to Paris (June 13), he began a round of official receptions, dinners, calls, parties and conferences that seriously distracted him from his job. The plate, the linen, the menu and the service at the...
One of Yale's most justly applauded and admired teachers has pointed out with consummate tact and understanding that from the beginning of a lecture the instructor is under a nervous apprehension lest he may not receive the usual and expected applause. In consequence of this slight, he either becomes...
Quincian forbears were not so tolerant as Quincians of today, and on this idea hangs the Stokes plot, details of which were revealed last week. The hero is Wrestling Bradford, a young Puritan clergyman darkly obsessed with the beauty of Lady Marigold, fiancee of gay Sir Gower Lackland. While Wrestling...
City Lights cost $1.500.000 to produce Before release it had sold to a guaranteed booking of more than $4,000.000. Chaplin worked frantically to make it his greatest, to justify his faith in pantomime. Chance guests would be hauled into his projection room to see rushes of the film. They...
A man who knows how to make a good saw and who was Wartime purchaser of helmets and armor for the U. S. Government, watched the construction of one of the world's strangest buildings last week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of...