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Though their films are designed to perpetuate great legal personalities, and perhaps will make money, Alumni Edmund Lawrence Dorfman, 1936, and Bernard A. Reimer, 1929, failed to persuade Harvard Law School to finance the first two, hope to get their expenses back by renting the pictures to alumni and other groups. If Cinemactors Beale & Williston pay out, other films will follow. John Henry Wigmore, 74, dean emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School is tentatively scheduled for film three. The national market for law lecture films: 160,000 lawyers, 40,000 law-students...
Before his contact with Commissioner Reimer, Edward Laning, 29, knew little of railroad history, a lot about the theory and practice of mural painting. Leaving Amherst because the sound of John Coolidge's saxophone was more than he could stand, he went to Manhattan, entered the Art Students' League. There he became an ardent pupil and disciple of Kenneth Hayes Miller, and a faithful follower of the painter who inspired Instructor Miller, Peter Paul Rubens. In Europe Laning had made a Rubens tour through Paris, Holland, Belgium, Spain, the result of which is obvious in all his work. Critics consider...
...York's Commissioner of Immigration had been Edward Corsi, a distinguished member of Manhattan's Italian colony. In February 1934, Commissioner Corsi resigned to take over the even more difficult task of administering New York City's poor relief. Appointed as his successor was white-haired, bushy-browed Rudolph Reimer, a serious hard-working Democrat who had retired from the coal business...
...sooner was Muralist Hideo Noda's cartoon submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California...
...Laning mural, showing the building of the Pacific Railroad with Irish and Chinese labor (see cut), got by Commissioner Reimer last week only after the artist had made many a change of detail to bring the whole into accord with that official's idea of U. S. history. Pointing to the drawing, Commissioner Reimer said...