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...years most of the founding Independents were recognized as U. S. classics, but as public appreciation of art increased the Independents' show lost practically all excuse for existence. The business of discovering artistic talent has become highly organized. Not a single first-rate critic bothered to write a serious review of the Independents' show last week. Newspaper humorists, who flocked to it, privately divided the exhibitors into three groups: successful veteran painters who continue to show with the Independents for auld lang syne; harmless amateurs; nuts...
...critic, Columnist David Lawrence, pointed a monitory finger at Section 5299 of the U. S. revised statutes. That law says that whenever "domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State" so obstruct the execution of its laws as to ''deprive any portion or class of the people'' of their rights it shall be lawful for the President "and it shall be his duty" to use Federal force to restore order. Another newer critic, Columnist Walter Lippmann, wanted to know whether the President would be any better equipped to deal with strikes...
...Boston Bar Association, continuing his law office at 10 Postoffice Square when well past his 98th year. He passed his bar examination in 1868, six years after graduation from college. Four of the intervening years were taken up with naval service in the Civil War. An outspoken critic of the New Deal, he reiterated his stand on his last birthday by blaming the Roosevelt administration for "the greatest demoralization in our history". He was also one of the major donors of the Harvard Theatre Collection, considered one of the finest in the country...
Also on view in the front hall of the Library, is an exhibition of books belonging to the well-known Boston music-critic, Philip Hale, presented by his wife. Hale was well known as a book collector, and part of his collection of first editions of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville are shown here...
...tempers of Manhattan play reviewers are prone to grow shorter in the spring, when the general air of relaxation tempts fledgling producers and first-play authors to emerge hopefully from Broadway's crannies. Last week one critic compared Arms for Venus to a toothache and another mentioned a session in a dentist's chair...