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...vast Congress of 500 Soviet poets and prose writers that assembled fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 27) in Moscow's famed Hall of Columns under the guidance of walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky turned their attention last week to Russia's children. A 13-year-old girl known as Alia Kanshin marched into the hall at the head of 13 Siberian moppets under a big red banner proclaiming themselves "THE CIRCLE OF THE PUG-NOSED." The Circle had just completed a cooperative book on child life in Siberia. They demanded more and better books for Soviet children, books about "the struggles...
...simple, unified, fairly complete, and most important. It shows in every phase the impact of modernity on ecclesiastical art, and illustrates the first original development in artistic style since the close of the Baroque period. Models and photographs demonstrate the modern churches designed by modern architects, Boehm, Bartning, et alia. In harmony with the structures of an age which has made material more responsive to mind than ever before, and so has had undreamed of power over the abstract are the altar furniture, vestments, tapestries, stained glass and other work which completes the display. The high points of the collection...
...Court will have its hands more than full in reviewing the law in this class of decisions, and will doubtless return to its former rule of accepting administrative tribunals' findings of fact as final. Now, in lieu of this probability are the demands of Lord Hewart, James Beck, et alia, that administrative tribunals be kept under close scrutiny, both as to membership and as to decisions, entirely without merit? Victor H. Kramer...
...weighing the importance of the opinion of the legislature. It should be added, however, that the Court has refused to sustain a law on the ground that the emergency which made it constitutional had ceased to exist. (See Wolff v. Court of Ind. Relations, 262 U.S., 522 et alia...
Doctor Monica (adapted by Laura Walker from the Polish of Marja M. Szczepkowska; Robert Martin, producer). The oval, heavy-eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...