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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Edmund Wilson admires Marcel Proust, shows it in this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...
...basis of watching the two men play it is this writer's opinion that Kozeluh could beat the Frenchman. He doesn't attempt to blast his opponents off the court and therefore would fall no easy victim to the infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than...
Strictly Dishonorable. In a speak-easy whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...
Dissatisfied, the returning painters formed a guild called the "Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...
...large room in a modest hotel on a Manhattan side street last week met a number of women and seven men. They sat at card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This...