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...romance of Vermeer's resurrection after two centuries of neglect adds to the subtle fascination of his art. His pictures were forgotten and passed for DeHoochs, Metsus, Ter Borchs, even Rembrandts. Not until 1860 did the critics Burger and Havard put together the scattered evidences of his life and work. Even now there are but 37 authenticated Vermeers known - eight in the United States- and it is almost a certainty that more will be unearthed from the dust of European attics. Apart from their rarity, the qualities which give Vermeer's canvases their coveted value are their handling...
...Sometimes I think," Mr. Tilden added, "that you've all forgotten how to laugh in New York!" Perhaps we only snicker and snigger. Who knows? At any rate, whatever may be our pet noise which denotes amusement, we shall probably bring it forth when we encounter Mr. Tilden's Mr. Podd, unless, perhaps, we are members of "the lunatic fringe...
...applicants receive a thorough mental and physical diagnosis. The cases treated are chiefly well-known psychiatric types?multiple personalities, obsessions, phobias, depression and melancholy, hypochondria. The treatment consists largely in recognized psychoanalytic methods of probing the patient's mental life, revealing the forgotten early experiences, hereditary or other causes which initiated the difficulty, and encouraging the sufferer to face and conquer his own troubles. Fifty patients a day are coming to the clinic, many of them intelligent and refined persons, and excellent results have already been secured...
...fact, his ingenuous enthusiasm for this vialled virility seems for the moment to have swept him off his feet. Not only has the fighter become involved in this strategic blunder, but his manager as well. Jack Kearns, whose brain held up Shelby and the nation for $100,000, has forgotten himself so far as to give away the secret of his success. He, too, admits that Nuxated Iron is vital to his champion's " phenomenal victories...
London has forgotten for the moment the complaint that her stage was overrun with American productions and has turned to welcome the cardinal artists of the Italian and French theatres. Eleanora Duse, who has been quoted by London correspondents as more than meditating on an American tour, is giving Tuesday and Thursday matinees at the New Oxford theatre to packed stalls. Ibsen forms the backbone of her repertory. Dividing the honors are Lucien and Sacha Guitry, assisted by the latter's wife, Yvonne Printemps. The Times concludes an extended eulogy of this distinguished trio with the comment: " Well, we have...