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...Symphony Hall that the Harvard speakers were chattier than the Boston College men, strayed from the microphone more often and, in a commendable effort to be chummy, unacademic and pretty understandable, did not hesitate to employ terms which would have horrified the late Messrs. Barrett Wendell and Adams Sherman Hill, dismayed the chaste Charles Townsend Copeland and disturbed the poise of Dean Briggs. Boston Herald...
...party is similarly divided on Prohibition. In the Fort speech observers saw a campaign effort to straddle the issue, to appear both Wet and Dry for the coming election. The issue is sure to be carried into the Republican senatorial primary centred between Dwight Whitney Morrow and Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen. Candidate Frelinghuysen is a Dry jf the same stamp as Congressman Fort. Candidate Morrow may yet be jockeyed into a Wet position not unlike that of Congressman Lehlbach...
...stockholders were thrown last week against any Federal commission which might be set up to regulate U. S. telephone and telegraph companies as the Interstate Commerce Commission now regulates the railroads. The four billion dollars and 469,000 stockholders were those of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., personified by Walter Sherman Gifford, A. T. & T. president. Mr. Gifford told the Senate Interstate Commerce committee that, while he favored U. S. regulation "in principle," he opposed it in practice because, in his opinion, it would annihilate control of communications by State agencies just as State regulation of railroads has vanished...
George ("Buggs") Moran, Chicago gangster, and his crony Leo Mongoven, were arrested for loafing about the Hotel Sherman lobby, both soaked with perfume costing $2 an ounce...
When not engrossed in the performance of these, he gets off some well-timed bits of acting. The scene most worthy of mention is the superbly theatrical moment between Lowell Sherman as the Bavarian Emperor and Barrymore, as the Soldier of Fortune, just before the battle. Sherman, an ever-popular villain does his few bits to perfection as usual. Marion Nixon looks much better in a white wig than otherwise, but is mostly rather ineffectual. The historical background and supporting casts are worked out well. All in all, the picture is worth a long car-ride...