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...life as is I should go to the summer school just once. So I said what I could and went up to University and asked J--. I asked for a catalogue and got one and brought it down to read. And, to quote a subtitle from Corinne Griffith's last--I was as breathless as listerine when I found what I could take...
Until nine years ago the Republicans and Democrats of Congress held each spring a duel to death on the diamond. This year plans have been made to resume the annual inter-party baseball game at Griffith Stadium "as soon as weather permits, on some Saturday when the Washington American League team is away from home." The teams...
Reginald Mason, E. E. Clive (from the Boston Stock Company), Eleanor Griffith and others spoke their pieces capably enough. In fact everything was all right except the play. Even that seemed to serve in England. But, unfortunately for those concerned, Manhattan is not London. Probably Boston was only fooling...
...current movies can be divided into integral parts without any appreciable loss of interest. It is the producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch on all the way along the line. D. W. Griffith is quite sound in his belief that this hap-hazzard method of presentation hampers the artistic advance of motion pictures immeasurably...
With sleet and examinations forcing continued cave dwelling the undergraduate, gazing at obscure texts and obscure days of the D.W. Griffith variety occasionally wonders both at the texts and the days. Aristotle has admitted that man is "a thinking being"--and the undergraduate--Mr. Mencken notwithstanding--is usually a man. So while the logs leap into flame or the tries to make them, his wonder becomes fused into a definite inquiry: why, after all, is he here, looking so very glum while the sun shines on other fields and making hay is so delightfully easy...