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This week Dean Lane & friends were to go before the Arizona Legislature to demand that Arizona, only State without a full-time health commissioner, employ one at once. Prompted by Critic Buck, Dean Lane was to urge further that each of Arizona's 14 counties and all its big cities hire full-time health officers, and that those authorities be empowered to deal peremptorily with water supply, sewage disposal and all other environmental health factors...
...sugar his bitter purge, Critic Buck last week addressed these good words to Arizonans: "Arizona has the justifiable reputation of having a very desirable climate and because of this reputation enjoys a most favorable tourist trade. No one wishes to do anything which would interfere with this trade. The safest and surest method . . . would seem to lie in emphasizing the fact (when that stage of development has been reached when one can honestly do so) that Arizona is carrying on a thoroughly modern, well-balanced program for health protection and promotion insuring the health and happiness of its people...
...America possesses a culture. This hundred page introduction is thoroughly worth the price of admission. Seizing upon quotation after quotation from the writings of expatriated aesthetes, intellectual dilettantes, and sycophantic snobs, Mr. Seldes revels in defending American culture. With a deft touch, which reveals Selders'' abilities as a social critic if not as an economic theorist, he hurls the vaporings of the effects back into their very teeth. American culture, like American political psychology, is boisterous, unashamed, and preeminently honest even about its faults. In this section of his book, Mr. Seldes proceeds with a confidence unfortunately lacking when...
...brilliant is Katharine Hepburn as Jane Eyre that the critic, even, must admit he forgets the part of the flery heroine is being played by an actress and not by Jane Eyre. Possersed herself with a rebellious and independent nature, she makes the character real and vivid. As her lover, the haughty, physically powerful Rochester--whose tyranny merely serves to cover a deep tenderness, Dennis Hoey supports Miss Hepburn extremely well. At all times he is her equal as an actor, and no-where can it be said that he is completely outdone by his colleague's superb performance...
...complete agreement with Critic Stein, but for different reasons, were the members of the New York County Lawyers' Association, who thought the program implied that poor people could get no relief at law because of the high cost of litigation. The Chicago Bar Association's Public Relations Committee Chairman Mitchell Dawson raid he thought that the program exploited "human misery for commercial purposes . . . encroaches on the practice of law . . . undermines confidence in the courts whose judges lend themselves to the scheme...