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...Hecht and MacArthur again, taking sophisticated cracks at the newly popular cult of armchair communism, as practiced at intellectual colleges. This one is co-educational; the founder's daughter, a bored post-debutante, returns for more learning after a trip around the world, and falls in love with the arch-radical of the campus. Nothing is too red for her then, until she is kidnapped by one who embodies all radicalism within himself; rescued from his predicament by a trio of splendidly-played burlesque G-men, and returned to the arms of her incredibly rich father, through with bolshevism...
...spoiled daughter, Belinda, played by Mary Taylor, looking even more charming than she does on the pages of "VOGUE." John Harvard presents a sensitive young idealist as Bus" Jones, the college communist. The best performance is that of Lionel stander, who will be remembered for his work in another Hecht and MacArthur film, "The Scoundrel." He fills the role of Muglia, Belinda's kidnapper, who can carry Lenin and Stalin in his coat pocket, and still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which he philosophizes to Belinda is worth the rest of the film. The picture...
...following three students, who are candidates for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in the School of Education and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, have received University Scholarships: Richard B. Ballou, of Worcester; George D. Hecht, of Dorchester; and Samuel Sinnreich, of Brooklyn, New York...
Filling his magazine with a judicious mixture of letters from readers and articles by professionals, Publisher Hecht got his 100,000 subscribers in two years. Contributors included Psychologists Alfred Adler and John B. Watson, Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Dr. Allan Roy ("Quintuplets") Dafoe, Writers Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Kathleen Norris, Albert Payson Terhune, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. On the subscription list were the Lindberghs, Mrs. Irving Thalberg, John D. Rockefeller III. In his tenth anniversary number...
Publisher Hecht explained it all to his own satisfaction, gave his editorial formula: "The field of child study, parent education and better homemaking . . . deals with all that is most fundamental in life-with the home, with the love of parents and children, the relation of husbands and wives, with all that makes for security and joy in living...