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...current exhibition at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art is unusually interesting in that it affords an opportunity for comparison of the work of several countries in the line of contemporary etchings, wood-cuts, and lithographs. Largely a black and white exhibition, there are a few colored prints in the foreign group...
...general, the tendency of France to outstrip America and England in modernistic productions is apparent. Marie Laurencin, whose covers of Vanity Fair are known in this country, has a few color lithographs which are really mid-Victorian in comparison with some of the work of her countrymen. Pablo Picasso may be seen in two colored etchings which are characteristic of his latest and more incomprehensible moments; George Braque and Andre Lurcat contribute to the confusion of one who would like very much to understand. On the other hand, Jules Pascin, whose career among the sordid elements of Paris closed...
...Russia; is the current presentation at the Fine Arts Theatre. In speaking of almost any weekly program at this theatre which presents either first run films, foreign films, or repetitions of the best films of former years, it is worth while to say that with few exceptions, in comparison with regular moving picture standards, they must be called superlative...
...interesting comparison of murder as committed in various stratas of society may be obtained by reading "The Corpse in the Constable's Garden" and "The Westminster Mystery." The locale of the first is the little county of Brigshire, England; where life is langourous if slightly boring, where there is time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes...
Peter Ibbetson, As if to invite comparison with the Metropolitan Opera's recent production (TIME, Feb. 16), the Brothers Shubert have revived John N. Raphael's and Constance Collier's dramatization of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson. As a libretto for Deems Taylor's music. Peter Ibbetson seemed peculiarly apt, and Joseph Urban did some notable settings for it. The Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes...