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Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies) is the only young American with any semblance of a reputation. Roland Young's glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...
...scandal," concerning the fake antique Gothic statuary in American museums, is investigated by Rene Gimpel, noted French connoisseur. Gimpel says the scandal is faked but the statuary is genuine. Once more the press is hoist by its own sensation...
...pointing to a glorious past of accidents. Indeed no more than three or four weeks ago one train, by its speed, created a short circuit and an ensuing riot of three thousand; while but a short time before another train speeded its wheels off and forced the passengers to hoist themselves up for air by ladder. In the Londoners' challenge there is no mention of the comparative velocities of London and New York cab horses. The only possible explanation of this omission is that the London cab horse is so glaringly inferior that no amount of effrontery could...
...shooting parties. A little bit of Flanders and Belgium has rolled backward across the Rhine. The explosion of the "new gas" which Germans are said to have been preparing was quite as sudden as was the descent of the German devestation upon Dinant and Louvain in 1914. Oppau is hoist with Germany's own petard...
...reason that the teacher knows how to make them appealing. Put the same work in the hands of an incompetent and inexperienced instructor,...... and it will no longer be identified with the name of "snap course." It will immediately become an uninteresting course, and over it the undergraduate will hoist the red flag of danger as a warning to his unsuspecting fellows. --Boston Transcript...