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Permitting Chrystal Herne to roam at large as the girl from home, handling sentiment with veracity and putting the color of conviction upon the butterfly who bursts from her homespun cocoon. Miss Crothers, moreover, does not allow her to sacrifice a career on the alter of Willie's toothpaste. Louise Closser Hale (oldfashioned mother), Merle Maddern (vampire), Alan Brooks (artist) and Richard Sterling (Willie) are others who are sufficient unto their parts. The producers?Equity Players...
...public opinion by England through propaganda and censorship, coupled with Western ignorance and indifference, has resulted in the common misconceptions about India, and usual failure to appreciate true values in Indian affairs, according to Mr. Hossain. "The average American's idea of India is a place where elephants roam about and fortune-tellers line the streets; just as his idea of a Turk is a person who is constantly either wallowing in polygamy, or cutting the throats of Christians...
...large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there is a whole world of bookplates and bookplate-collectors in which you are the most ignorant of novices...
Plato despised the Sophists, who taught for pay, but the conditions Plato dealt with were not like those of today. Nowadays teachers are not isolated individuals who roam the streets offering their learning for what they can get. They are members of institutions and it is the privilege of these as such to undertake nothing less than the decent support of their teachers...
...year to year, have recently grown so pronounced as to warrant a complaint through the columns of the CRIMSON. One of the most objectionable features is the presence of unauthorized guides, who frequent the Yard on Sundays in particular, and of uncleanly, ill-behaved children, who are allowed to roam almost at will through the grounds...