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...Burns Mantle's "Best Plays", and through its own merit should attain the popularity of its older and more famous companion book. The author has long been associated with the moving picture departments of the New York "Herald" and "Life", and is perhaps as well qualified as anyone to edit a "year-book of the American screen". In fact he has brought out an interesting and intelligent handbook of the American movies, which, in its way, does for the moving picture public, what "the Best Plays" does for the theatre-going public...
...further annonuced that this will be the " first college daily newspaper to receive a full leased wire service." It will be published six times a week, in eight-page eight-column form. The students of journalism will edit the paper; the students in the College of Commerce will manage business affairs. It will be published from its own plant, equipped with three linotype machines and a press that will print " from the roll " and turn out folded and complete 6,000 papers an hour. Besides general news, cartoons and " cuts" or pictures, the lowan will have a Society column...
...William Randolph Hearst for $375,000. Fort Worth, Texas, is the smallest city in which Mr. Hearst publishes. ¶ John E. Cullen will command the recently acquired Baltimore division of Hearst's newspaper empire. William Roscoe Thayer, popular historian and biographer of John Hay, Roosevelt and Washington, will edit. Thayer, like his employer, is a Harvard man, and is generally considered to be the most "cultured" of all Hearst's men. ¶ Mr. Hearst took over the Baltimore American (morning) and the Baltimore News (evening) from Frank A. Munsey two weeks ago. The News retains its old format...
...should edit a volume of plays and call it "Plays of Old France" one would not expect to find there only the sensationalism of the Grand Guignol. But that is what Mr. Duran has done for the dramatic literature of old Japan. "I have selected", he writes, "scenes which to my mind are intensely thrilling and have all amount of sensationalism and horror of which we have never been aware". He has accomplished what he set out to do. These mangled dramas are thrilling and horrible to an unusual degree. But beside being selected from a very special field...
...marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write at least as well as anyone who is writing. The newspaper profession has no side, no hocus pocus of mystery, no grandiose flourish of technique that is in other professions gives pause to the average...