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...Harvard in particular, the CRIMSON feels that it will be performing a new and valuable function. With graduates and clubs it does not wish to supplant but merely to supplement the Bulletin. With schools it does not wish to proselyte but merely to give the schoolboy, accustomed to the lurid and often unintelligent reports in the metropolitan press of the country, a truer picture of the facts and events at a great university, which happens to be Harvard. It hopes that the day may come when every college newspaper of the country may have such a special issue...
...further, an unsuspected power in books themselves. Nowhere does a volume look so diabolically alluring as on the shelves of a bookshop. Books of all colors, sizes, shapes, fairly leap from the tastefully arranged display tables. They shout at one in unmistakable superlatives of blurbs. On one jacket a lurid cubist decoration fairly startles the unwilling hand into the sparsely lined pocket; on another, the charming features of its young authoress entice with promises of a vicarious intimacy; on still another, the names of the great array themselves in an overwhelming aggregate of authority, making it almost a duty...
This year, however, the news columns of the CRIMSON have been made to sizzle betimes with stories concerning the Ku Klux Klan at Harvard and other such stuff as dreams are made on. Good judgment, we think, would have counselled the omission of these lurid tales which proved to be without substantial foundation in fact. And good editorial judgment would also have indicated the waste-basket as the proper depositary for a letter which the CRIMSON printed a few days ago over the signature of an alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite...
...DRUG FIEND? Aleister Crowley?Dutton ($2.00). Sir Peter Pendragon, demobilized English ace, acquires the cocaine habit and a lady her friends term " Unlimited Lou " in the same large evening. They marry and proceed to Paris?varying cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall?and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus?a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme?where they are finally made...
This thesis might be set down as film fatuity and the picture destined simply as another flyblown feature, if it were not for the name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...