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...fact that it has become excessively trite to say that the world is becoming increasingly interdependent doesn't make the fact less true or less important," said B. M. Cherrington, authority on world affairs who is scheduled to speak before the Summer School tomorrow evening in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. If the object of education is the successful adjustment of the individual to his environment, then education per se must deal with the world, for the environment that conditions the behavior and shapes the destiny of men today is planetary. Among educators this is now accepted generally. That...
...adapted the story, was clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity. The story: a young architect (Gene Raymond) and his wife are pressed for funds. She goes into a law office, swiftly becomes a celebrated attorney. Her husband, slighted by her friends, humiliated by her success, takes to drink, dancing girls, the profession...
...Divorce"--Shubert, 44th Street W.--Fred Astaire and Claire Luce dance to the well-known tunes of Cole Porter. A delightful evening if you don't mind trite plots...
...second picture, "Second Hand Wife," deals with a trite subject, but is raised from the depths of mediocrity by clever work on the part of the leading characters, Sally Eilers, Ralph Bellamy, and Helen Vinson. Karol Kay, as Patsy, provides more evidence to support the prevalent theory that all juvenile stars are unbearable, but she is kept in the background enough to conceal this fact from all but the most observing of the audience...
...into the headlines, also, things have been happening throughout educational America that are really much more alarming than the more spectacular events of which we all know. One is continually hearing that the Depression is a great teacher of youth. Yet it is just as obvious, and almost as trite, to observe that the Depression is worse than war or pestilence in the way it takes educational opportunities away from youth and raises havoc with students and teachers alike...