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...other picture at the University now, a word of praise for Allen Jenkins and William Gargan, for the rest of the cast, the director, and the whole movie--well, we wont say anything because we believe in the old Latin proverb which says "de mortuis nil nisi bonum...
...time an evil gets into a proverb it is generally old and notorious beyond repair. Such are "the law's delays." For ;25 years bar associations and public men have been trying to speed up court actions. One big cause of court delays are arguments over practice and procedure. One half the questions on which Federal Appellate Courts must rule concern procedure alone: Federal Courts are guided by a complex and undigested mass of laws passed by Congress, of judicial decisions and diverse practices in 48 different State courts. Although every President since William Howard Taft has joined...
Eloquently set forward by its sponsors as ". . . boiling over with sizzling, syncopating rhythm . . .", the offering at the Park Theater is not of pristine quality. The chorus is as usual but another testimonial to the proverb that beauty, unlike fine wine or Dunhill briars, does not improve with age and constant handling. Let this be no deterrent, however, to those who view life with the comic spirit, for such will find the entertainment eminently laughable. And since no smoking is allowed at the Park Theater, the stage is always clearly visible...
...Charles Street would very probably arouse censorial activity, while if certain bits of dialogue were transposed from "The Front Page" to the stage of the Howard Athenaeum, that venerable institution would be closed not for just a month, but always. From this we might draw a reaffirmation of the proverb "there's a time and place for everything." Primitive reportorial humor is just as acceptable in a newspaper play as hard swearing was in the dugout in "What Price Glory," as bed-room skits in a musical comedy, or scenes from a Turkish bath in Scollay Square; but each...
...coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth In the language of the old French proverb, 'the indispensable man is yet to be.' I have no objection to a man saying he would like to hold his job but I resent the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding...