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...responsibility for the present depression can be laid at anyone's door, surely big business is the most likely doorstep," declared Newton D. Baker, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Many of us have grown up in the United States to feel that the capitalistic system brings with it the largest social and economic gains. The period of depression in which we are now plunged has taught us that this system has defects. Thousands who have suffered in the present crisis have for years entrusted their independence to the leaders in the capitalistic world. If these leaders...
...vehicle, will stay to be bored, and will understand at last why Paramount sought to wrest some manner of control over her acting and stories from the stubborn von Sternberg. For whatever fault, and there is much, which can be found in this cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert Marshall, able English stage veteran, grinds out an unsympathetic thankless supporting role...
...young gentleman when first seen was sitting on the doorstep staring disconsolately at the ground. Rain from the eaves dripped steadily down upon the rusty thatch of his head, but he noticed it not. There are some thoughts which are more searing than mere physical discomfort. As the Vagabond approached the better to divine the cause of all this anguish the young gentleman looked...
...sort were permitted. Previously Finns favoring continuance of Prohibition had postered the city with statements that "those who vote wet will be punished on the day of judgment." On election morn, since the Government had forbidden both Drys and Wets to distribute handbills, the Drys laid upon every doorstep in Helsinki a copy of a Dry newspaper ap-pealing editorially for support of Prohibition. In not a single Helsinki district, however, was a Dry majority polled...
...story is not yet under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...