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...Parade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an honest and clever adaptation of Upton Sinclair's sloppy tract on Prohibition (TIME, Sept. 28). Without the radicalism of its original, it delineates the evils of drink and shows, without partiality Wet or Dry, that guzzling to excess brings misery. The heroine (Dorothy Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth...
...York Committee headed by John Don Passos, has enrolled such prominent figures in both literary and social service work as: Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, Babette Deutch, Waldo Frank, Corliss Lamont, Lewis Mumford, John Cowper Powys, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Genevieve Taggard...
...Lillie parades her usual timeless and unalterable self, tiring to some, but to most an unending delight. Hope Williams has not altered either. As she was in "Holiday," so she is in "Too True To Be Good," boyish and earnest for the most part, unconvincing in many moment. Hugh Sinclair is most constantly heard: "Popsy's satisfied so long as you let him talk," is well applied to him. Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly...
...Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as "percipient" seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets of paper and fix his attention on each in turn. Meanwhile, at a safe distance, percipient Mrs. Sinclair would let her mind "go blank" until she felt knowledge stirring within her. Then she would draw what she felt her husband had drawn. Sometimes he would wrap his drawings in opaque green paper before he put them in envelopes. In such cases he would sit by Mrs. Sinclair while...
...Sinclair had trusted him with their original material. This indicated that of 290 experiments Mrs. Sinclair was successful in about 23%, partially successful in 53%, failed in 24%. Psycholytic Dr. Prince, "after years of experience in solving hundreds of human riddles . . . and with due regard for my reputation for caution and perspicuity," is convinced that Mrs. Sinclair "has amply demonstrated the phenomenon known as telepathy...