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...huge ledger called Paul Whiteman's Scrap Book. Charles Irwin, master of ceremonies, turns the pages; each page is an act in the revue and most of the acts are boring. Director Anderson has made the picture a vehicle for glorifying stagecraft instead of using stagecraft to sharpen entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric...
...Scene. "We" are the older soldiers (Tjaden, Westhus, Detering, Katczinsky) and the 19-year-old ones (ex-students all: Kropp, Muller, Leer, and "myself"? Paul Baumer). We are at the Western Front. We feel the Front in our blood. Shells whistle, our senses sharpen. We feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember...
...function as intended. For the whole idea behind the experiment is an enhancement of education through social contacts to rescue the individual from submergence in the mass, to put him where he may enjoy daily social intercourse with members of the faculty and of other classes, and so sharpen his wits and his intellectual curiosity. Obviously, to carry it but there must be besides provision for physical propinquity in dormitory and commons, an esprit de corps which actually persuades the various elements in each of the new academic families that they enjoy one another's society and "there...
...just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing to do lends to increase the light, to sharpen the audience of perception between right and wrong, and thereby to strongthen character...
...cold air controlled by radio signals transmitting the desired picture by the usual radiograph process, modulates the hot air, producing the shading in the received picture. The advantage of magnifying photographs sent by radio: when the picture ig reduced, again to normal size, its details sharpen...