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Special applause for your article on Dr. Bontzolakis [who says that his abstract-artist patients are either poseurs or neurotics-March 9]. Let's hope it will open the eyes of all the snobbish dilettanti who unwittingly promote and support insanity, encouraging those unfortunate ones to stay away from doctors and sanatoriums where they would have a chance to be cured...
Author Griffith proffers no ready cure for the distemper of the times. He raises a muffled cheer for a selfless elite that would set high cultural standards and hew to them. But he spurns existing elites as too withdrawn, 'insecure, and narrowly snobbish for the task...
Whether or not individual Club members are snobbish and unpleasant (and in most cases they are not), no one can deny that there is a strong undemocratic tinge to the system which rubs off on anyone who joins it. The Clubs generally draw the men of so-called "good family" and upbringing, and though they are not bound by restrictive codes, only the most exceptional Jew or Negro would have a chance of being accepted...
...young actress trying hard. Richard Smithies, in the part of a philosophic army officer, plays Richard Smithies. He does this very well by now, but the characterization is becoming tiresome. As for the other performers, except for Elizabeth Fox, who is just about nasty enough as a snobbish young wife, the kindest thing which can be said is that they would profit from further experience. But so should everybody...
Trundling tripe around Europe merely confirms the average European's impression that we are cultural boors. These so-called A.E. artists are a collection of bone-lazy, pseudo-bohemians who foist five-minute brush floppings onto the usual gullible, snobbish suckers...