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...LAUGHS (Conrad Veidt), TEMPEST (John Barrymore), RAMONA (Dolores Del Rio), SADIE THOMPSON (Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore), THE CROWD (Eleanor Boardman, directed by King Vidor...
...Tempest. The face of John Barrymore is, no doubt, a handsome one. His bare shoulders also have a certain attraction. Observers of Tempest are not allowed to forget these facts, which occupy an inexcusably large amount of the film's footage. So, it is no wonder that the reputedly "gripping" action drags. Mr. Barrymore is Sergeant Ivan Markov, of peasant birth, who attains a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats...
...Honor System, which has lately been the pivot of a small tempest at Yale, is now on the lap of the gods. The Student Council is weary of thanklessly juggling the university's morals and has sought deliverance from its travails. The Faculty shows no enthusiasm for a return to Faculty supervision in the sense of watching for cribbers, but will not tolerate a total absence of regulation. Finally, the undergraduates themselves have arrived at a state of general apathy concerning the issue...
...elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...
...there was none in sight and he must needs fly all the way to the California coast whence he started. At least so say the weather experts, who claim that the sun was shining calmly in the spot five hundred miles from shore where he claims that a tempest blew away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill and the two-a-day. But there will always remain a few skeptics who, keeping in mind...