Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mann's chief characteristic stands in his own path. He has carried local colour to its reductio ad absurdam. The significance of the theme is lost in pages and pages of interesting but unnecessary detail. Herr Mann is probably assured of literary immortality. But it is sad that he should survive, not as a great mind, not as a great artist, but as a source-book for future historians...
...Local...
Sirs: TIME'S spicy, well written columns are marred by one thing. The magazine is too local. As a newsmagazine it should be more liberal, more cosmopolitan. Since when is Ontario an "American" State,- or Windsor a suburb of Detroit ? Since when is the business of Ontario NATIONAL AFFAIRS of the United States...
...famed English actor, about whom Dumas wrote a play which is the structure of this film, is depicted wooing the ladies, avoiding the creditors, insulting the Prince of Wales, acting Hamlet and Romeo so all the world wonders. Pictures of old Drury Lane Theatre lend a touch of authentic local color. Actor Mosjoukine, a Russian, under direction of Albert St. Louis, a Frenchman, gives an intelligently humorous interpretation of the English hero...
...floating about the college, nor can they give the time to run about picking up facts here and there, as newspaper reporters do. The fault is to be charged to the entire body of our students, and it is only owing to indifference on their part that our local column is less interesting to the students of Harvard, than the the columns of the 'Yale News' and the 'Cornell Sun' to the men in those colleges...