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...story deals mainly with the fortunes of an amateur movie company which is trying to make the United States a Utopia through the filming of a soul-stirring, star-spangled-bannered photoplay called "The Birth of America". It is fortunate indeed that the authors have treated this subject in a semi-jocular mood, for handled seriously it would be "100 percent Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity...
...other technique in the world seems to improve at such a pace as that of war. The Utopia of the artists of war advances daily nearer. General Maitrot, a Frenchman, has made a forecast of the future that is half vision and half possibility. France, he says, has since the armistice developed projectiles so powerful that a dozen of them would wipe out a city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information...
...alcoholic content of Hurley no doubt did exceed the legal percentage of one-half of one, and the condition there seems to have resembled that in the more or less mythical Utopia where the bootleggers must perforce wear badges to avoid selling to each other. Word had been passed out by the liquor dealers of the Wiseonsin hamlet that here was "one place in God's country" that was a "man's town for real men," and intimated in no uncertain terms that the first prohibition agent to make his presence known would find the vicinity unhealthy...
...that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...
There is an increasing portion of Labor-Unionists in the student body and the number of those who believe that Sovietism and Communism represent human Utopia is by no means small. These gentlemen would find relief of mind and body in a place where their most radical thoughts could gain utterance...