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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the 14,661 ft. Matterhorn, and Mount Everest...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London...
...From Mount Holyoke comes news of the latest undergraduate investigation of the educational system. And by that chance which has been causing no small amount of surprise since the analytical custom originated, the students have hit upon several constructive ideas. Apparently, Holyoke has been suffering from that form of cultural indigestion which attends an unchecked elective system. Diversity of choice has resulted in a hodge-podge of courses which served the educational god of distribution without proportionate respect for his twin, concentration...
...slightly unorthodox style, he is more given to "spells" of brilliance or mediocrity than some other golfers, but his courage and resourcefulness are of an extremely high order. His opponents never feel secure against the "impossible" shots that it is his habit to bring off. . . . Siwanoy Club (Mount Vernon, N. Y.) prepared a triumph for its illustrious son and his bride of four months, the former Agnes Isabel Lewis of Toronto...