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...Waldo Frank returned from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story...
Four-hundred-twenty pounds from the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire "for the advancement of good literature" at Harvard, would not make a very large impression now, but if it had not been for such a gift in 1669, there might have been no Harvard to impress...
...Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink to 2,515 by 1910. The city still had an air of faded grandeur, however, sufficient to impress young Barry Benefield, a local boy who later made his home town the scene of best-selling Valiant is the Word for Carrie...
...plot, full of silly situations which aren't very amusing, and too long. It is poorly acted by Robert Young and Ann Sothern; Young is one of these boys who finds that looking peeved, frowning, flouncing about and shouting too loud is the only way he can impress personality on you. And last, it's an attempt at the type of comedy the Crawford-Tone, Loy-Powell successes have made popular, and consequently it spoils the effectiveness of the main feature...
Next step of the A. P. will be considered by its directors at their meeting next month. Meanwhile KVOS, whose application for license renewal did not impress the Examiner of the Federal Communications Commission as "in the public interest, convenience and necessity," may itself be out of existence before the case ever comes up again...