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THE SALEMITE
Saturday, February 1, 1930.
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Everybody is playing basket-ball
here with as much enthusiasm as if
inter-collegiate games were in view.
This is a classic example of “Sport
for Sport’s Sake!”
In addition to the regular after
noon practices groups of girls have
been skiing down to the Hut every
night for special scrimmages, not at
all abashed by “‘iO below” or ice and
snow. The court activities have
been accelerated this week, by the
prospect of the first games of the
season which are to take place Mon
day night. The four sororities will
start the ball bouncing when they
engage in an exciting double-header.
The games on Monday night will be
followed by other inter-sorority con
tests until each sorority has played
every other sorority. The line-up
has not yet been determined, but it
will be announced as soon as possi
ble.
These games are by way of pre
liminaries to the final inter-class
games. The public is invited to stand
by and cheer the losing players—or
anybody else. There is a treat in
store for you. Come out and see
Charlotte Grimes and Frances Cald
well turned athletic.
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eview
THE COLONIAL
For Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday an unusual attraction will be
presented at the Colonial theatre.
It is “So Long, Letty,” a happy-go-
lucky, rollicking film taken from the
stage success of tlie same name. The
star of the film, Charlotte Green
wood, was also the originator and
star of the stage production. This
talented comedienne is well-known
on the legitimate stage, and makes
her screen debut in the success, “So
Long, Letty.” Film actors and ac
tresses in the supporting cast are
Patsy Ruth Miller, a favorite of
many a scrccn devotee. Grant With
ers, a newcomer, who played excep
tionally well in “Hearts in Exile,”
Claude Gillingwater, noted screen
villain, and Bert Roach, the laugh-
provoker. Whoops, my dear—it's
here. And Salem will turn out en
masse to see and hear “So Long,
Letty.”
“The Locked Door,” a drama full
of mystery, suspense, and thrills,
will be presented on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. Heading the cast
are piquant Betty Bronson, interna
tionally known for her wistful,
adorable “Peter Pan,” and Rod La
Rocque, one of the most popular
leading men in moving pictures. Bar
bara Stanwick ably plays a second
lead. “The Locked Door” is firmly
fastened, but all who go down to the
Colonial will get a key (the ticket!)
which will open the delights of a
thrilling two-hours to them.
A WAR STOR REMARKABLY
TOLD
“All Quiet on the Western Front.”
By Erich Maria Memarque. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company. 291 pp
$2.50.
By John Paul Lucas, Jr.
Departing from the provincialism
of nationality, the German writer of
“All Quiet on the Western Front
(Im Westen Nichts Neues),” has
thoroughly deglorified warfare, pre
senting the tragedy of it as it in
volves mankind, rather than as it
affects specific empires and nations.
Many war books have been pano
ramas of the horrors of battle, of
ift'ering of men and beasts.
Some war books have glorified the
spirit of armies, and romance has
marched through bloody pages.
Some war books have been burdened
with insidious propaganda, with
stupid provincialisms, with false
representations of the enemy meth
ods of warfare. Some war books
been conceived in a spirit of
gruesomeness and bear the theories
of abnormal psychology into fiction,
rationalizing that which is impossi
ble to rationalize—because war i;
not reasonable to civilized nations.
“All Quiet on the Western Front’
bears no petty burden; it is not a
romance; it is essentially real; with
out effort to distort and exaggerate
the grisly facts of trench warfare,
it reveals a scene of steel and death
where life is no longer life. It ad
vances little that is strange in hu
man psychology. It is, finally an
object lesson in humanity.
The conversation of those soldier
school boys, “Kat,” and “Tjaden,’
and “Albert,” ridiculous, sentimen
tal, lovable, profane as it is
places, is, in other places, a :
lation of the philosophy of the
who fought the war. The romance
and gaiety of Beau Geste is there,
but these men are alive. They are
before the reader’s eyes and
when they die in agony and in ani
mal heroism born of desperation,
they can be seen falling, distorted.
MR. PHIN HORTON, JR.,
SPEAKER AT EXPANDED
CHAPEL HOUR
(Continued From Page One.)
drinking and its associated evils. It
is a known fact that the young peo
ple of this country and other coun
tries drink in order to be smart and
daring. The situation is deplorable
when the youth of a nation indulge
in excessive drinking. However, re
cently there has been a movement on
foot to reduce the intoxication among
young people. For example, in
London the debutantes have formed
a society which has the “Don’t drink,
don’t smoke, don’t swear" attitude.
There are some citizens who ad
vocate the legal use of light wines
and beers, containing less than
and one-half per cent alcohol.
Horton said that this plan will
work, as these beverages will not be
accepted in the place of liquor fox
the reason that they do not produce
the desired effect. Mr. Horton stated
that this plan is merely an entering
wedge to break down the results of
prohibition. According to the speak-
■, the greatest need in prohibition is
le co-operation of the average citi
zen. North Carolina and other
states have spent millions of dollars
in the attempt to enforce prohibiti
but it will not be effective until there
is no demand for liquor, for as long
as there is a demand, there will be
a supply. The present day demand
for intoxicating drinks is summed up
well in the following words of Will
Rogers, “If breathes had been taken
or counted rather than ballots, the
Prohibition Amendment would have
never been ratified.”
The speaker says that without
doubt the skeptic will say, “Under
prohibition, crime is on the increase,
and this statement is true. Disre
gard for the Eighteenth Amendment
has grown into disregard for other
laws. Nevertheless, this lawlessness
is not all due to disregard for pro
hibition but also to the present day
Court procedure. There is too long
between apprehension and
conviction, in whicli time the cunning
and unscrupulous members of the
corrupt legal fraternity are able to
enter and form definite corrupt
plans. The speaker advocates the
English system of quick trial for the
present day law breakers.
Plorton says that according to
present statistics the Prohibition
Boy Who Made Good
“What do you regard as the best
speech you ever made?”
“I haven’t any preference,”
swered Senator Sorghum, “but the
ones that afforded me most satisfac
tion were my various speeches of
acceptance.”—Washington Star.
, ui=i,uii,tu, I eighty per cent effective
pain-sweated bodies. —So stalwart ^’>'«'*'bition is here to stay,
and powerful in massive boots and However, unless it is more rigidly
steel helmets; but see them swim- enforced by both the “classes and
AT THE CAROLINA
The dream of every vaudeville
trouper: Big Time! At last that
pair of hoofers, Eddie Burns and
his partner, Lily Clark, could marry
and step out on the Two-a-Day.
But there was Gloria, an icy-
hearted Miss who stepped in whe
Eddie’s wife had to step out for
“blessed” event—and Eddie, whose
brains seemed to be in his feet from
then on, forgot about the w(
who made him—and when the
proved to be “not so hot,” Gloria
made it plenty hot for him.
This all-talking Fox Movietone
picture is featuring the star of
“Broadway,” Lee Tracy in his big
gest role, “Big Time.”
Auditorium Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, February 3, 4, 5.
Sam Hardy, starred in “Mexicali
Rose,” the Columbia all-talking dra
ma of love and revenge in Old Mex
ico, will be at the Auditorium thelast
half of next week.
Barbara Stanwych acts the part
of the fascinating, fiery girl gambler
who plays with the lives of two men
and last until—well see “Mexicali
Rose” and find out what happens.
ming, naked, slender, scarcely
than adolescent children.—
War that, even in the process of
making heroes, degenerates mankind,
stopping the civilized processes of
regeneration; war that is futile, use
less, mad; war that is monstrous, in
conceivable until one is drawn into
the maelstrom of the Front, and
there, because of its character, un
believable; war that is futile, inj
ous, hopeless is tlie tale of the West-
But the pathos of the men
speak to one another, shouting above
the scream of shells, and the youth
and whimsy of the men who car
forget when they “go back” are ir
a sort of poetry. The reader is
conscious of the form, the deep im
plication of the words, but he can
read them and absorb them, realiz
ing their poetry.
What is to become of the genera-
)n that fought the war? “—the
generation that grew up before
though it has passed these years with
us here, already had a home and
calling; now it will return to its o
occupations, and the war will be for
gotten. —And the generation that
has grown up after us will be strange
to us and will push us aside,
will be superfluous even to ourselves,
we will grow older, a few will adapt
themselves, some others will merely
submit, and most will be bewil-
But the theme of hope comes
The book is an epic. It should be
used in the universities, if it could
be so employed without automatical
ly consigning it to classical oblivion.
the masses,” there will be a long
time yet before the water wagon will
be popular.
In conclusion, the speaker chal
lenged all Americans to be ever
obedient to the laws of the country
The thing virtually important now is
better obedience and enforcement of
law. If prohibition can not be en
forced, it should be abolished. Yet,
if it were abolished it would only
furnisli the necessary data for an
other movement of its kind. But it
is entitled to a fair trial and its
cost should be checked against its
results. Already it contains three
excellent points in its favor, namely,
ten years of trial, the legal proced
ure of trial and error, and the lab
oratory procedure of test and reac-
“Mexican President Flies Over
Volcano.” A good many Mexican
Presidents have lived on them.—New
York Times.
Reaping the Reward
I didn’t marry beauty, my boy;
I didn’t marry wealth or position;
I married for sympathy.”
“Well, you have mine.”—Tit-Bits.
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