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...attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates in suffering. He pities himself with much fervor. Doris Keane, his costar, shows her customary sensitive discrimination, but reads her lines like the Psalms. Catherine Collins as the street walker...
...degree weary of continually being sacrificed by youthful authors on their altars to Moloch--a state which turns to resentment when we poor boys are attacked instead of our sister "flappers." None of us are perfect, and I always have my doubts as to the efficaciousness of turning the searchlight of the sensation mongers upon our seamy sides...
...Aided Searchlight Development...
...Living Room of the Union next Monday evening, November 15th, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Department of Astronomy. Mr. Sperry will tell of the development of the Sperry gyrocompass and Sperry stabilizer, and will trace the remarkable results obtained in the new high intensity searchlight. The address will be open to the public...
...little because it is easy to be so. Study your capabilities! If God wants you to be an iron cog-wheel in the machinery of life, you will be better off the sooner you stop trying to be a steam whistle or a glaring searchlight...