Word: psychopaths
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...theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy's innocent relationship with the family black sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns, the mother triumphantly drives her from the house...
Artists. The painting of pictures is the activity of the normal mind which stands closest to insanity. Next come in close order sculpture, poetry, music. Psychiatrists are just beginning to interpret what they have long observed?the close connection between the psychopath and the artist on one hand, the psychopath and the criminal on the other.?Professor Wilhelm Weygandt of the University of Hamburg. His patients produce modernistic paintings?lop-sided faces, elongated beasts, geometrical patterns?comparable to those of the modern masters. But not all such artists, said he, are mentally unbalanced. Some draw
...abstruse, some what vulgar meanderings. There are those who consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned with. No one, I believe, questions his genuine sincerity, and there are many who believe that time will find him the great prose genius...