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...hall devoted to "Insults to the Honor of German War Heroes" were several etchings by Draughtsman Otto Dix, who ranks with Grosz for his skilled and brutal memories of trench fighting (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Another section oddly entitled "The Mocking of Christianity" displayed Emil Nolde's Christ and the Thieves which the National Gallery in Berlin bought for $10,000 in 1930. There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part...
...doctors and reformers who pioneered U. S. psychiatry, Benjamin Rush showed the greatest ingenuity, Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried...
...these elements; one might only wish that they were joined together in a slightly different pattern. Still, if you don't mind seeing a show a third or fourth time under a new name, and if you like lusty, elemental drama, you'll have no kick coming. For Richard Dix, Chester Morris, and Dolores Del Rio do their respective tasks to perfection. Before the caviling mood is passed, it might be observed that in the final scene, in China, Richard and Chester's telling us in discordant song that Abdul Abulbul Ameer fought in the ranks of the Tsar...
Devil's Playground (Columbia) lacks novelty of background, U. S. naval deep-sea work having been used before. Jack Dorgan (Richard Dix) is a diver who can stand more subaqueous pressure than anyone else at the San Diego base but blows up handsomely when he finds Bob Mason (Chester Morris) in over-close proximity to Mrs. Dorgan (Dolores Del Rio). After Mrs. Dorgan has told the truth about this situation, Jack goes out to rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with...
...list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle Taylor (the "Voice of Experience") an honorary Doctor of Laws...