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Opening in the middle of April, First National Pictures will launch a campaign to secure for the screen those Grecian visages which to date have been obscured by the dust of the pursuit of knowledge. The fortunate youths will forthwith be shipped prepaid to Burbank, California where they will be tested thoroughly for eight weeks at $50 per week. Should the neophytes meet with the approbation and unqualified admiration of this branch of the cinema world, they will be reengaged on a scale of rapidly mounting salaries...
Isadora Duncan, danseuse: "A year after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
...these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude...
...CRIMSON cannot outline definitely a complete scheme by which the graduate students shall drop his shackles of tiles and trays, the undergraduate lose his Grecian fetters, and the faculty member forget forever the mawdln messes of the Colonial Club. That is even too difficult for an undergraduate newspaper. It can however state with all sincerity that conditions here are far from what they should be both in food and the price of food. Furthermore, it can suggest that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine...
Then, calmly, gently, with Grecian repose, the executive relapsed into silence. And the Official Spokesman again was heard, this time telling the defiant ones that the President had talked not of his politics, but of his personaltiy. If he choses Bruce Barton as his confidante, in preference to more inquisitive souls, that, after all, was his own business. Henceforth, however, the President was to be quite mute. Again the chatty wraith would roam Capitol Hill. The reporters went away musing, and thinking that possibly the executive was not nearly so speechless as he appeared...