Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who prefer the old order will find "Geraldine" as interesting a picture, in its way, as the feature it is a variation of the old theme a very plain girl is shown how to become very lovely and things begin to happen...
...student section of the Socialist movement one might hope to find a blending of youthful idealism and careful thinking...." Well, as far as we know, we are the only ones in Harvard College so youthfully idealistic as to be interested in the "Liberation of manhood theme," or in the failure of two Anarchist Wops to secure a fair trial. Surely, we are the only ones doing any careful thinking, for, as yet, the Crimson has failed to touch on the real issue: "Was or was not the leading article true...
...idealism and careful thinking that would bring a journal of opinion to a high standard. Discussions in such a medium should be by and for undergraduates, and of an original turn, uncolored with the general propaganda motive. The Progressive with its tabloid-like treatment of the liberation of mankind theme can scarcely be considered to include any of those features which would seem to justify it as the organ of a group of Harvard students...
...question of personality, of course, enters, but there again personality is such a varied attribute that it is difficult to do more than generalize on such a theme...
Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best...