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...hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting sons, old Mrs. Dowey (Beryl Mercer) picked out a Black Watch private (Gary Cooper) who happened to have her own name. She told people she was his mother, sent him cakes and sweaters, making him believe they came from some fine lady. When he came...
...windy clearing surrounded by a forlorn forest of scrub pines is the setting of the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst. N. J. Above the plain looms a sombre hangar, home of the Navy's Los Angeles and of other dirigibles when they visit the U. S., a structure so enormous that it has contained two mammoth and two smaller bags all at once. But, even in the Skyscraper Age, size is not everything. The relatively tiny, thoughtfully beautiful chapel may attract quite as much attention as the mighty, bleakly utilitarian hangar...
After incurring a disproportionate amount of comment, the University has at last condescended to clarify their position with regard to the recent Scrub Woman debacle. Admittedly the affair has received more publicity than its importance would merit, but the fault lies not so much with the newspapers as with the officials in charge of the matter. Either these gentlemen are firm believers in the adage that speech is silver and silence golden or that little boys should be seen and not heard. At all events the motives and intentions in this instance have been distorted far beyond the original design...
Publicity of this sort is obviously unhealthy and certainly is to be discouraged. Mismanagement in cases such as these leads to the creation of a public opinion which is detrimental to all who are connected with Harvard. The Scrub Women and their two cents have been lost in the avalanche of criticism so that all that remains of the instance is that Harvard has made a terrible mistake. After the ball is ever a press release makes its appearance, carefully explaining that all is well, and optimistically presupposing that this shaft of illumination will dispel the gloom of several weeks...
...largely on the age of the observer and the particular type of humor which he most enjoys. But it is apparent even for those with the most liberal appreciation of a joke, that the effort has received far more publicity than it merits. For some reason, during the entire scrub-women episode the authorities have been in an acute condition of nervous excitement, and now have gone to the trouble of making a statement to the effect that this student society is not to be taken seriously--the only thing which has so far given if the least aspect...