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Many schools, in reaction to the traditional rigidity of education, have made complete freedom for individual expression their guiding principle and this freedom has proved especially profitable for children of outstanding talent. A similar plan in New York would give gifted pupils an opportunity which they now lack, to develop their capacities...
Fifteen years ago the Independent society was founded by a group of serious younger artists, among them: John Sloan, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Samuel Halpert. Since then New York has sprouted out all over with modernist galleries. The discovery of artistic talent has become a business as highly organized as philanthropy, with museums, trust funds, press agents of its own. Left to exhibit at the Independents' show are a few loyal veterans of its early days, and the hopelessly mediocre, the would-be humorists, the self-advertisers. Some 700 of them paid their $6 each last week to show...
...that East Lynne is more than a dramatic critic's joke. An old admirer of lovely Lady Isabel causes all her trouble when he takes her, unchaperoned, to a dance, and later goes to her bedroom to tell her of his love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban designed the settings), but it is an honorable Victorian relic. Silliest sequences: the end in which Ann Harding, about to go blind, goes home for a last look at her child before...
...Legal Duel Great was the array of legal talent which the Bank of U. S. affair brought last week into the New York courts. For Messrs. Marcus and Singer appeared Charles Henry Tuttle, last year's Republican candidate for Governor of New York. C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman of the bank's directorate, was represented by famed Martin Wiley Littleton. Mr. Kresel himself appeared in court with his counsel, John William Davis, erstwhile Democratic candidate for President. They were but a few of the bank officials' lawyers. On the other side appeared District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain...
Dracula (Universal). Director Tod Browning, who had charge of the best Lon Chaney pictures, has a talent for creating macabre atmosphere by the use of "interiors." He is a director who never, if he can help it, photographs a scene out of doors and then only at night or in a fog. Bram Stoker's famous novel about a vampire who survives hundreds of years after his death by drinking human blood and who is killed at last by a professor who drives a stake through his heart as he lies in his coffin provides ideal material for Browning...