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...producers who are enabled by the practice of block booking to free themselves from the annoying stimulation of competition, and to sell pictures which neither pay the exhibitors nor please the public. A few excellent pictures which the public demands are sufficient to force the purchase of miles of rot. That the huge majority of movies is unpopular and unprofitable does not affect the producers, secure behind the walls of their monopoly, yet the studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture...
...stop the decaying of the mortar on the gate posts. The stone facing on the posts is only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major repairs have been found necessary in order to combat the decay which has set in on these comparatively new structures. As has been the case with the majority of the repairs of a similar nature which have been found in University buildings...
...with almost everyone that the U. S. farmer is in a pretty pickle but he is too good a novelist to propose solutions. In The Farm he is merely making pictures and telling stories of a time when things were much better for Ohio landowners, suggesting how the dry rot of the 20th Century crept in and spoiled them...
...Adventurer Edward John Trelawny. As Shelley's incinerating ribs fell apart on their pyre of driftwood, adventurous Trelawny, a lion of a man, thrust in his brawny arm, snatched out the simmering heart. Cried Lord Byron: ''Don't repeat this with me. Let my carcass rot where it falls...
...illustrate rot in the national fibre, Poet O'Neil introduces an incongruous parade of vicious types, an interpolation wooden enough to make a 13th Century miracle play seem like a production by Noel Coward. All four sexes are represented, besides a Banker, a Society Boy, a Negro Poet, an Indian Lecturer, an Agitator, a Sweet Old Thing. It is not surprising that these, and his thrill-chasing wife, drive young Daniel to self-destruction as the curtain falls...