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...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...
...plan for public education in art is responsible for this handsomely illustrated and well-written volume. The sponsors were various organizations, like the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the articles, all contributed by recognized authorities on their several fields, were originally radio talks...
...otherwise well-written story of the Wilkes-Barre trial was marred for me by your reference to it as "a juicy murder" for which "editors thanked Providence." [TIME, Oct. 15]. ... If this accurately pictures the professional attitude toward such revolting crimes, would it not be more accurate to change your favorite expression of "newshawks" to "news buzzards...
...while objecting in large part to the governmental interference with the instruments of production. But it is apparent that this would be no real opposition, and could never result in the placing of more Republicans in the Capital. For opposition must be opposition and not like some of the well-written but luke-warm lugubrious-like criticisms of a Lippmann...
...imperils her career and interrupts her romance is familiar to cinemaddicts. So is the story of the plebeian beauty who. visiting the patrician parents of her fiance, shocks them by saying "My father was a florist." Desirable combines these two stories in a program picture which contains a few well-written sequences but not enough to make it valid either as comedy or problem play. Verree Teasdale, George Brent and Jean Muir perform competently...