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Collegiate (Paramount) is an up-to-date adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School, which Wallace Reid made as a silent picture in 1921. It is a revealing commentary on the progress of cinematic fashions that the principal figure in the current version is a personage as unlike Matinee Idol Reid as it would be possible to find: Pantaloon Joe Penner, whose alarming ability to simulate the appearance and behavior of a congenital idiot has rapidly made him one of Hollywood's most admired comedians...
...slice. Only one private car was needed to carry the Washington delegation, which included Senator James J. Davis, U. S. Treasurer William A. Julian, Joseph Tumulty, George Creel, White House Secretary Stephen T. ("Steve") Early. At the reception they mingled with Bernard Baruch, Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Publisher Ogden Reid, Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld...
...office boy's salary as an assistant to the Third Assistant Secretary of State. That was in 1907. Within two years he had won such esteem in the Department that he was sent to London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid was in very poor health. It was during that period that he married Caroline Astor Drayton. Mrs. Phillips is a descendant of the Draytons whose name means as much in the history of Charleston, S. C. as her husband's does in Boston. In 1912 at the ripe...
...outgoing United Farmers Cabinet of Premier Reid had been so utterly routed that their party failed to win a single seat, but these rustic Radicals departed with the satisfaction of knowing that they had presented Premier Aberhart, whom they consider still more radical, with a virtually bankrupt provincial treasury and a run on the provincial savings banks which had been ordered last week to pay nothing for the present to depositors...
...dividends, "there will be room for me to fit in somewhere . . . perhaps as Premier." To Canadians outside Alberta the election seemed in advance a messy maze, with 240 candidates of four major and several minor parties running for 63 seats and nothing certain except that Premier Richard Gavin Reid of the United Farmers Party, which came in on a landslide in 1921, would go out into limbo as a victim of Depression. When returns began to trickle in, when Montreal's rock-ribbed conservative Place d'Armes - Canada's financial centre - learned that...