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Flaming Youth endeavors to establish that young men and maidens wild are going up in the smoke of their own cigarettes. It contains all the rabble of trashy devices which cinema directors employ traditionally to indicate the younger degeneration, even to the midnight bathing party. All this is un-tunate, since the story of the socially rabid mother who on her deathbed persuaded her physician to write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports...
...carefully thought out, has been made the subject of so many experiments, and is so readily put into execution, that every man can try it for himself. Mysticism is not the monopoly of a few souls,--it is the possession of every Christian man and woman who cares to employ the ascetic exercises established by Loyola...
...Ninth: Employ Navy and Army, if necessary, to stop the debauching of American shores by rum-runners, domestic and foreign...
...Gallienne is entrusted the important title role. Miss Le Gallienne is a very quiet actress, expressing with a poignant emphasis that she who would be queen cannot employ the palace as a playroom for emotion. Basil Rathbone is her tutor; Philip Merrivale her prince. They seem manufactured, moulded, polished for their parts. Among the remainder of the consistently competent company are the capable veterans Hilda Spong and Alison Skipworth...
...following quotation exhibits an attitude with which Harvard has little sympathy. "I proved that your other statements were just as misinforming as the one refuted here." If he is attempting to convince the University of the correctness of the German point of view, Mr. Jentsch would do better to employ more courteous methods...