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...Vadis? started in 1913 a fashion for historical spectacles. Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote and directed Cabria. But since 1916 native Italian cinemas have deteriorated. Premier Mussolini has his private theatre, equipped for talkies. For a while he banned all cinemas in foreign tongues. Later he changed this edict, permitting foreign talk if the picture was musical comedy or operetta...
...that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...
...recent edict of Palaeopitus, the student governing body at Dartmouth, has relegated all Freshmen restrictions to the limbo of the graduates' memory, where, no doubt, it will flourish for many years to come. Only one relic of school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into...
Governor Moody's edict said: "I hope the officers find the persons who set fire to the courthouse. . . . Send these persons to the penitentiary. . . . Firing on [soldiers] was treasonable...
...quietus on some Texans who were hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...