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...dismayed to see in this morning's editorial entitled Colonies and Peace, that the "Crimson" has accepted so blindly and unquestioningly the inexcusable oversimplifications of Mr. Frank Simonds. In the interests of the peace for which you yearn so eagerly, I beg a few inches of your space in which to expose another, more factual view of international relations...
...kingdom of Hart & Porter, the King (Melville Cooper) yearns not for feats of statecraft but to be able to perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...
...dramatic effect of Paths of Glory seems somehow to miss the full impact of What Price Glory? or Journey's End, it is probably due to a slight flaw in the matter of illusion. It is a little distracting to hear men dressed as French soldiers yearn for Paris and their native villages in honest New Yorkese. As the two most prominent of the condemned men, however, a pair of extremely credible performances are turned in by young Actor Myron McCormick, late of the Princeton Triangle Show, and oldtime Actor William Harrigan, commander of the 3rd Battalion...
...spell, in Ohio. Numb, he thought he was growing paralyzed. Of U. S. phenomena he has been most im-pressed by the Statue of Liberty, skywriting, Negro spirituals, politicians. He took readily to collegiate sweaters, rejected knickers as undignified. Having specialized in sociology, he hopes to make his people yearn for knowledge. Now the Kikuyu's prime ambition-which he achieves only by years of prying and pulling with coils of wire, disks of wood, cane pegs, gourds-is to make his ear lobes touch his shoulders...
Languishing in the dingy depths of Stillman infirmary, ailing students yearn for some recreation to relieve the tedium of long days in bed, but when they turn to the library which is provided for them they find only a few dog-eared detective stories and stuffy novels. Compared to the impressive collections of books at college infirmaries like that of Dartmouth, the facilities offered Harvard men appear meager indeed...