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...Heart Thief (Joseph Schildkraut, Lya de Putti). He is a young man of the Balkans for whose embraces the entire feminine population of those parts entertains a noticeable predilection. Therefore, he is called upon as the ideal instrument for frustrating a political marriage. So thoroughly does he execute his commission that the girl marries him. Joseph Schildkraut makes a jaunty flirt...
...Princeton need take this dictum too much to heart, for other choices among the Yale senior statistics arouse suspicion of bias or weakness of judgement. For why should "Shef" rank Greta Garbo high among the beloved actresses of the screen, at the same time entirely neglecting Lya de Putti? Since the attractions of these two charming ladies are closely allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will not bring...
...view in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum. The reproductions are from the New York dealer, E. Weyhe, and will be for sale to members of the University until March 4. The mention of Old Master drawings usually calls to mind many academic heads, many chubby putti, many nudes in red chalk, all manifesting the years of devoted study passed in repeating the forms of the schools for the purpose of creating pretentious paintings which can be classified as being in the style of this or that master. This is a tradition left from the time when the term...
...fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back to his poor sweetheart and the tenements, evidently to earn that "hour at the gates of Paradise'' which frequent subtitles guaranteed for every soul that resisted him. The Griffith love scenes are always poignant...