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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Thompson, 42, born at Weeping Water, Neb., turned carpenter, then college professor. In 1923 he visited the Orient on the yacht of the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard newschain, through whom he became Director of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems.
Novel-readers, relapsing despairingly to the cinema, relapsing disgustedly to novels again, may have wished sometimes for a novel without words, a cinema without moving pictures. Here it is.
In a series of 138 woodcuts, of which every picture helps to tell the story, the allegory of an artist's life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist...
Author-Artist Lynd Ward has woodcut an effective book. His pictures may not please artists, but they will hold the novel-reader, eager for a story. In parts the treatment is strongly reminiscent of German cinema-e.g.. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. But the book is a tour...
Southward bound for the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta last week were Charles Delos Waggoner who cunningly schemed $500,000 out of six Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16) and George Graham Rice, arch U. S. promoter.* Also last week were broadcast charges which, if proven, may send other schemers to cells...