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...Jung spends now and then a few weeks in the U. S., but even if he had spent all of the time of his last sojourn in America in the company of Mr. Roosevelt, as a scientifically inclined psychologist, he could not have justified his sweeping statement. As is so often the case with European scientists and "observers," the American mentality, the American concept and interpretation of democracy, and the true causes on which these are based, are foreign to Dr. .lung. He discovers Negroid and Indian traits in our mentality while he doesn't see that the Negroes...
...Devil-Doll (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer) is the most ambitious effort ever undertaken in the use of the long-known but seldom-employed technique of photographic disproportion. Lavond (Lionel Barrymore) gets back to Paris from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on the men who put him there. His weapon is a discovery made by a fellow prisoner (Henry B. Walthall) of a way to reduce people to one-sixth of their size. Heretofore the process, which has been used only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size...
Producer Korda's start as a journalist left him with a respect for the profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it was a short step to the conclusion that the payroll of London Film Productions, Ltd. was the proper place for an author like H. G. Wells. Few writers of comparable distinction have ever worked in Hollywood. Most of these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells...
Last summer eleven of the leading universities and colleges in the U. S. (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicage, Stanford, California, Louisiana State, Delaware, Lafayette, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) were invited by the French government to send representatives for a two weeks sojourn in Paris for the purpose of festering more cordial France - American relations...
...course of his sojourn on the continent, Mr. Helmes interviewed Igor Siravinski, the Russian composer, later working with him in Munich. Adrian Boult, appointee of the king as head of the British Broadcasting Company was associated with Mr. Helmes for some time in London...