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Professor Janko Lavrin of University College, Nottingham, provides an informative introduction, though he makes no effort "ad captandum vulgus" by mentioning what is likely to win the vast majority of readers: Solovyev's criticism of "Hamlet", in which is demonstrated (as indispensable to the tragic venture of the play) the capital importance of Hamlet's belief in blood-vengeance, despite his Christian faith, and of his "general incapacity to put into execution any law." This is a most ingenious criticism of Shakespere, and it will serve to remind one that Russians have been unorthodox critics from the beginning -- a fact...
...ties with brown suits! A well-matched shirt, tie, and handkerchief seldom go unappreciated. On the other hand, black shirts are apt to be frowned on and no sympathy whatsoever is reserved for the unenlightened soul who appears in a gray and brown combination. "Revolting!" shudders the artistic Wellesley critic. "How can anyone stand a brown jacket with gray trousers!" "Ploppy and unimaginative." Thumbs-down is the high sign on derbies and corduroy pants...
Among radical U. S. preachers, Methodists are most numerous and outspoken. Their most vehement and powerful critic is Publisher Hearst, who is being ably aided by a Midwest organization called the Conference of Methodist Laymen. Within the past fortnight Mr. Hearst and the Methodist Laymen have been violently exercised by the following events and utterances on the Social Gospel...
...Society of Neoterics is a group of arty Chicagoans who meet once a month to talk about art and their souls. At less frequent intervals they hold exhibitions in the basement of Chicago's Auditorium Building. Only two of the Neoterics are well known outside Chicago: Art Critic Clarence Joseph Bulliet of the Chicago Daily News and Sculptor Maude Phelps Hutchins, wife of the president of the University of Chicago. An exhibition in the basement last week introduced a third noteworthy Neoteric to the world in the person of Torvald Arnt Hoyer...
Swiss Artist Rivier is even more. He is the theatrical critic of the Gazette de Lausanne. He has decorated the Protestant Church at Auteuíl, France, has completed 1,000 square meters of murals for Lausanne University. For his fourth advertisement Artist Rivier took Jacques Louis David's famed portrait of beauteous Mme Recamier reclining on her chaise longue, put a naked 16-month-old baby on her knees, had her holding out a full nursing bottle...