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...tickle reminiscence. And in this respect, Mr. Allen's comments too, are above reproach. If they are informal, if often they take on the questionnaire aspect of the minor parlor sports, one can only conclude that they represent the spirit and the intent of the book. Perhaps when the garish and unsubstantial covers have worn a little, and when references to 1933 appear not quite so obvious and so dignified as at present, the editors may feel some compunction that much effort and fine printing have been spent on a work largely devoted to temporary interest...
...Pope first appears blessing a throng at the Vatican upon his election in 1922. In later shots he seems more mellow, friendly, self-assured. He receives Boy Scouts in his favorite spot in the Vatican Gardens, the garish reproduction of the Grotto of Lourdes. The King & Queen of Italy visit him; black missionaries kiss his finger. The Pope speaks once, in his soft, old-man's voice, at the opening of his radio station...
...Manhattan's garish Hotel Astor last week met the 37th annual convention of the General Assembly of Spiritualists, a U. S. Group which claims 5,000,000 members. (Representatives of 30,000,000- they say*-world Spiritualists meet in international congress every four years.) The avowed purpose of the General Assembly is to keep spurious mediums out of the ranks. Last week it voted to stiffen examinations and raise qualifications. The convention frowned especially upon "yogis, yamas, gamas and other 'amas...
...last Friday was News-Week, garish, cheap-printed imitator of Time, weekly news-magazine. Edited by New York Times' S. T. Williamson '16, it copies popular Time almost slavishly. Adjective-loving News-Week lacks advertisements, photos of its own. Harvard men have seen most of these pictures before. News is sorted out under headings, "Sports," "Foreign." "Art" etc., like Time, but its pictures are not captioned by flippant Time-style quotations...
Connoisseurs of mystery fiction may well despise The Mystery of the Wax Museum because it breaks the rule that everything must be explained at the finish. Otherwise its garish ramifications should be pleasantly exciting. It shows how a sculptor of wax statues (Lionel Atwill), apparently driven insane when his effigies go up in smoke, decides to reproduce them by the highly unlikely process of stealing suitable bodies from the morgue and embalming them in tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that...