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Hollywood rattles along about the difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...
...words Elihu Root cabled from Europe two years ago, when he was engaged with other leading jurists of the nations in drafting the constitution of the International Court of Justice. This message from the greatest living Republican to the Republican Chairman, during the palmy days of the Harding Front Porch Campaign of 1920, evidently had small effect. For Mr. Harding shortly afterward declared the league dead,--an easy form of attack upon an institution, well-known to journalists,--and fought the remainder of his campaign for the presidency on a definitely anti-League basis...
...teach; but academic restrictions do not suit this lover of hard truths and of open fields. If he could do exactly as he chose, I imagine that one would find him at any time of year on that rise in the road near South Shaftsbury, sitting on the back porch by the fountain, surrounded by his wife and his four children, thinking, only occasionally selecting a thought which he considers worth putting on paper. That is why his volumes of poetry appear so rarely. The Selected Poems this spring will be the first since Mountain Interval in 1916. Robert Frost...
...behind all the graduates of Harvard College for ten generations back. Isn't it to be expected that he will feel that he is not wanted, and act accordingly? You can not expect a man to praise your hospitality when you invite him to sit down on the back porch...
...German Governess; 2, A Debutante; 3, A Class in Greek Poise; 4, Love in the Balkans; 5, On the Porch in a Maine Coast Town; 6, A French Actress: 7. In a Railroad Station on the Western Plains...