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Artists. The painting of pictures is the activity of the normal mind which stands closest to insanity. Next come in close order sculpture, poetry, music. Psychiatrists are just beginning to interpret what they have long observed?the close connection between the psychopath and the artist on one hand, the psychopath and the criminal on the other.?Professor Wilhelm Weygandt of the University of Hamburg. His patients produce modernistic paintings?lop-sided faces, elongated beasts, geometrical patterns?comparable to those of the modern masters. But not all such artists, said he, are mentally unbalanced. Some draw
Contagion. "Mental disorders are contagious. Those who live in congested districts, who lead busy lives in great commercial centres are in grave danger. If 500 normal persons were to be exposed in crowded quarters to five victims of mental diseases, the effects of those five abnormal persons would be felt by every one of the normal 500."?Professor Henri Laugier of the Sorbonne...
...physical effects can be managed with the sound and color cinema in its present phase of development, Mr. Anderson has brought off successfully, brilliantly. Miniatures have been juxtaposed with full-sized sets in technicolor, as when Whiteman carries his whole band onto the stage in a satchel. Later the normal-size orchestra plays on top of a monster piano. There are sets that spring, completed, out of the floor, in time to notes of music. There are deep romantic backgrounds of Maxfield Parrish blue, ballets in the warmest, though slightly blurred, pastel tints yet achieved in technicolor. There are angled...
...last year), tremendous stocks of copper have piled up. At the end of March the American Bureau of Metal Statistics reported this surplus as 522,581 short tons, almost twice what it was a year ago. If copper on consignment were added, the figure would be larger, and, under normal business conditions, a five-month supply. On the other hand, copper consumers have very small inventories and when buying starts it will be on a big scale. Although the reduced price means much smaller earnings for copper producers, this is foreseen, is some-what balanced by the fact that greater...
...employment of a group of noble individuals whose usefulness, a few short years ago, seemed gone forever. These are 'bouncers' of that simple and primitive anti-alcoholic ardor that cleared the saloon of 'bums' when those gentlemen by raucousness or unseemly act impeded normal intellectual discussion or progress of any worthy cause...