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...Griffith. His comedies, always improvised on the spot, gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...
...your hide is enfettered to a schoolroom stool...
...Play's the Thing. Last week in New London another class bumped through the twisting, light-tight entrance to their schoolroom. They donned red goggles to open their eyes to their lesson. Their classroom: a little theater complete with stage and lighting effects, everything painted dead black, even the benches on which they sat. The cast: friend and enemy warships. The play: night on any ocean. Center aisle in the orchestra were the choice seats: two shelves in a wooden reproduction of a submarine's bridge. Here sat the students to be tested...
During a recent raid on the City of London a bomb shower fired the wooden desks and floor of St. Dunstan's schoolroom. Verger Thompson doused desks and floor with water, causing the bomb fragments to explode. Undaunted, Fireman Thompson stamped out the fragments...
American Legion Commander Milo J. Warner: "We [admonish] . . . textbook authors not to regard it as their province to use the schoolroom as a sounding board whereon the glories of the collectivist society shall be preached...