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...corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then he says...
Statistics released by University Hall yesterday offer the first definite report on the trend of undergraduate grades during the present year. Confirming a general opinion that the scholastic average has been much higher than last year, the present proof that in comparison with midyear grades last year, the number of men who presented unsatisfactory reports has decreased by three percent of the College enrollment. The general average is extended evenly through all classes, and presents a strong contrast to the reports of the last three years, during which the proportion of unsatisfactory grades fluctuated very little...
...indicated by means of a shadowgraph. At the time this sequence was regarded as potent, somewhat daring. Life Begins, whose entire action takes place in and around a maternity ward of a city hospital, makes the high spot of Bad Girl seem like a Sunday School charade by comparison. One woman delivers a nine-pound infant, to the evident gratification of her none too virile spouse. An unmarried sinner leaps out of a window when she learns that her seducer has been packed off by his family to South America. In contrast, the independent lady who insists on being called...
OUTSIDE of Germany, the replantation of Hans Burgkmair of Augsburg has been limited, for he lived at the height of the German Renaissance, and his work was contemporary with that of Duerer, Cranach, Gruenewald, and Altdorfer, men whose artistic merits have been perhaps disproportionately praised in comparison with such a genius as Burgkmair. Last year was the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death and exhibitions of his works at Augsburg and Munich have increased the general interest in him and the appreciation of his significance for German art. Burgkmair was born in 1473, the son of an artist...
Since it is British, amusing and concerned with a love affair, There's Always Juliet will inevitably be compared with uproarious Private Lives. Less noisy than Noel Coward's play, There's Always Juliet should not suffer by the comparison...