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...authentic Belgian scenes, a minimum of stock bombardment pictures and a pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective...
...means to defiate purchasing power some day by balancing the budget at the expense of a future prosperity. But if he, if Professor Warren, are as discerning as I think they are, they must realize that there is only one reason why the national budget need ever be balanced, viz., to keep prices from rising. And they must, despite their public manifestoes to the contrary, have arrived considerably before their less thoughtful contemporaries at the inevitable conclusion that recovery means the creation and circulation of as great a quantity of money as is compatible with stable prices...
...write, viz.: "Squadron A in their smart uniforms formed in the narrow street to escort the Vice-President-elect to the Capitol. We decided that their mounts had been hired in Washington for the occasion, probably taken from coal wagons, as they showed a tendency to back onto the sidewalk...
From James M. Cain, a veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering their number, audiences, and mode of production. For those who road and believe not, subscribe to Consumer's Research and buy not, an article by Mr. Sayre, late of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dispels many puffs which inflate the current nonsense about streamlined horseless carriages...
...logical comment on the Delegates v. Press fuss was made by the New York Times which observed that Scot MacDonald, for all his talk of propaganda, really wanted the newsmen to write his own brand of propaganda, viz. that the Conference was doing great things. Said the Times...