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...Certain Young Man. Made two years ago, this film has just been released from cold storage. Ramon Novarro starts out with a monocle, a mustache, a high hat, a wife (Renee Adoree). In short, he is a smart Englishman. For the love of a U. S. girl (Marceline Day) he throws away the above accoutrements and woos her in the accepted manly fashion. The film should have remained in cold storage...
...suggested that the American who drew the inside lane that day, the moment that he was set, should start running. The rest of us would know what to expect and could save ourselves. But Abrahams, the Englishman, in order to protect himself would have to go, too, expending his energy. Of course if the first American was not called back he would undoubtedly win. But if he did not get away with it, then the next American would try, and the next, until each American would have started twice, while Abrahams would have had to start hard eight times...
...Today, after eight long years, the national indignation is still keyed to such a pitch that, last week, half a million Magyars welcomed with huzzahs and showered with Spring blossoms a bewildered young Englishman who entered Hungary with the words "Revise the Treaty of Trianon!" upon his lips...
...Laski expresses the incredulity of an Englishman that so great a Republic as that of the United States should allow its President, and to an even greater extent its Vice-President, to be chosen by the essentially haphazard methods actually employed. The restraints placed on American political leaders which in turn lead to comparative political inaction have caused a general apathy toward political matters in the American public which combined with the great prosperity of American life is sufficient to secure passive acceptance of existing governmental institutions...
...with old John D. it was different; he was out to develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand...