Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to say just wherein the picture falls down, it comes so close to being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...major fault of "The Wedding March" is that it drags. There is no question that some of the photography question that some of the photography is excellent, that scenes are skillfully put together, and that Fay Wray does a first class bit of acting. But somehow the thing seems to drag out interminably. As a picture by von Stroheim. "The Wedding March" is probably worth seeing, and as movies go it certainly is more than average, but none the less in view of what has been said in anticipation it is a great disappointment...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola said yesterday that several of the men who will run today have been kept off the first year team through no fault of their own, and that he expected to see some of them on the University team next year...
...much is expected that the distracted modern university publishes a catalogue quite as alluring as Sears Roebuck's. Everett Dean Martin deplores an educational system which, pandering to a materialistic age, offers equal "credit" for a course in Aristotle's Ethics and another in High Power Salesmanship. But the fault lies not so much with the age as with the perennial lack of a consistent philosophy of education...