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...status of the undergraduate, or the advisability of placing drinking fountains in Mallinckrodt, or the necessity of forcing conformity on the faces of Memorial Hall clock. They will go to the present bull session, and there find subjects suited to the intelligence and grasp of the college student, and lurid enough to hold his wandering inner gaze. If these matters be important and serious, well and good; if not, still well and good, for no one will discern the difference or care...
Every year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into...
...bail. Before the screamer headlines on the first story have time to cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which Hanlon thinks might dull her lurid reputation, to adopt a baby, because it scandalizes the lady inspectors from the orphan asylum. When she makes up her mind to run away from it all, there comes into Lola's life, with a suddenness that she fails to find suspicious, something beautiful. He is Gifford Middleton of the Boston...
...Your account of the Premier of Japan's dinner party in your issue of July 31, is absurdly incorrect. The account gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe...
Here, precisely where he might most easily have become sensational, sentimental or merely tasteless, Director John Cromwell handled his material most competently. Judge Dolphin's indictment, his sentence to six years at hard labor, Ann Vickers' determination to have his child, are handled, not in the lurid manner which they might have suggested to a less conscientious director, but with almost too much dignity. At the end of the picture, when Judge Dolphin is pardoned, Ann says she is out of prison too - the prison of ambition for a selfish success. Tying the story up with this platitude...