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...literal translation of the play by the same name, this picture offers considerable spellbinding. Holbrook Blinn is Bandit Pancho Lopez; Enid Bennett is the tiny, timid wife. The locale is the open spaces...
...reputation of being radical, have nearly all been accomplished- and, being in successful operation, are no longer regarded with apprehension. "It is ancient history now to refer to the election of Senators by the people. That policy did not rend the structure of government to its foundations, as timid conservatism predicted; nor did woman's suffrage destroy the fabric of society; nor have direct primaries upset the balance of our political processes. "As a matter of plain fact, I am in some things an utter conservative, determined to conserve, as far as I possibly can, those principles and policies...
...Principle of the Dangerous Precedent that you should not how do an admittedly right action for fear you, or your equally timid successors, should not have the courage to do right in some future case, which, 'ex hypothesi', is essentially different, but superficially resembles the present one. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time...
With the aid of an enthusiastic orchestra and adequate, if sometimes timid, scenery. "The Governor's Wife" seampers triumphantly on to a happy (not tired) ending. Even the Bull-Ring scene, in spite of its terrifying recollection of a football game at the Stadium, is distinctly thrilling...
...Alas! It can never be! The new school of pedagogy may allow women pupils, but we feel sure that the College will never be subject to the feminizing sway. That timid idea, so tentatively proposed by the Governing Board will not be adopted at Harvard. The stern spirits of every Puritan from Miles Standish to Cotton Mather arise in solemn protest. We see the inventor of the original "New England conscience" deliver his fateful warning.--Never. The drear halls of Sever shall not be made frivolous. No shall they invade the awful precincts of "Mem". For this is your...