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...Days proves that this resounding phrase was not accurate. Although a "Grandeur Picture" fills a screen about twice as wide as the conventional size, it is only two feet higher. With its new width the camera can take in two characters talking at the same time in the middle foreground, without switching its eye from one to the other but to make the faces clear, the characters must be cut off at the knee. Another advantage of the wide film is that it makes motion more exciting: moving things can be kept in sight against the same background twice...
...panel of the Coming of the Americans he has filled the space with a mighty column of American youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries an infant on her left arm and stretches out her right to receive the support of the American soldiers. Behind her, Belgium, a broken sword in her hand, has swooned, and is upheld by other soldiers, while she protects herself partially with the robe of Brittania...
Wolf Song (Paramount). Hill scenery is the background of this intelligent attempt to fit music into a romantic story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...
...importance of the Harvard Law School as an international as well as a national institution was brought again into the foreground yesterday by the announcement of the choice of a Swiss and a Hungarian as the beneficiaries of the Pugsley Scholarships...
...scholastic victory of the University has brought to the foreground at Yale the matter of more intensive requirements for concentration. The position of a member of the Yale team, reported yesterday, is very distinctly in favor of courses more difficult than those demanded at present of the honors man, who alone has the privilege of concentrating his work in a particular field. There is also implicated a request that every student should choose, as at Harvard, a field of concentration: this attitude, together with approving words for the tutorial system, is indication that Yale has been stirred to sincere self...