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...Organization for National Pro- hibition Reform and chairman of the Massachusetts Branch. Mrs. Lovett feels that the men who voted for the tavern have broken their pledge to stop the return of the saloon. "After proof of the power of an organized minority typified by the passing of the eighteenth amendment, it is incredible to me that the citizens of this state should be willing to accept dictation by another small group, that is to say by those men who made large profits by the old liquor traffic and hope to make an equal amount by the new regulation," concluded...
...decidedly fatuous. The charm of this cinema lies precisely in its dealings with the fantastic and it is this quality that makes it both extraordinary and different as movies go. In the story a young chap from the twentieth country, Leslie Howard by name, projects himself into the eighteenth century there to live over again the romance of ancestor Peter Standish and Helen Pettigrew. Complications are presented in prophetic remarks that so uncannily diagnose the future and which he so inopportunely drops along the way. Throughout, of course, there is a philosophical background which contends that eternity...
...capable of universal application to one in which the revolution has been identified and merged with the traditional policy of Russia, and has assumed the attributes of Russian nationalism. Here there is an exact analogy to the development of France in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when the Republic slowly deserted its universalist notions for strictly nationalist ones. The decline of the Third international in power and prestige until it has reached a point where the Trotskyites propose to establish a Fourth International shows how this tendency has manifested itself in Russia. The original Bolsheviks placed the furtherance...
There are several things about this announcement that perturb us. It may be, of course, that Mrs. Smith has chosen this quaint and premature method of sending a valentine to Ballantine. It may be that music, as a profession, has been underestimated. The eighteenth century method of capitalization indicates that a Philologist has been meddling. Who knows? At any rate, we hope that none of the guests will really be so coarse as to be found including a lady...
...showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate; in a midtown Manhattan...