The Washington times., 1932-12-20


szGM11zaAl ing that the editors little
6nBEKr sELDEs given to find in stones and
that my first guess that sex counted for little
in comic strips and Keystone comedies. They told
me to go ahead
Rejection
Going ahead meant writing the thing in 5000
words instead of &c. but jobs job and finished it.
said that Rin-tin-n was more lasting popular favor
te than Clara Bow (athough Miss Bow then at her
height and Rin-tin-tin declining into his grave),
and that Mary Pickford, who Queen of the Movies
for years. never exploited It, My offering bounced back
to with solemn indignation the part of the editor;
it superficial he said; he added that other con-
tbutors had spent years working out their ideas So
] sold the piece to magazine.
Now find in symposium, Sex in the Arts,
edited by less fanatca gentlemen essay by Struthers
Burt which begins: "There s in any broad and human
sense, practically such thing in the motion
pictures" to which he adds admirably that this is
of the most serious charges to be brought against
them. He notes the salacous which always
attached to innocent pictures, and that get neither
vouptuouSness serious thought about in them.
On the other hand, C. J. Bullet says that sex, in
blatant bold expression through the female nude
riot in contemporary painting" and Ernest Boyd,
menting the spirit in biography, Sex in
biography, in life ITSELF is simultaneously essential
and unmportant, when nothing else of Importance
is afoot This which ought to be written the head
stone of 900 writer's indicates that the present SYM
postum may be startling without being shocking, 1t is
published by Harpers.
The Spectators Hoax
received telegram informing me that the editors
of The American Spectator had made good their
promise to- publish intelligent attack upon them
selves turned to the magazine and found two half
columns written by Matthew Marmor; the name is
unfamiliar to and the attack is full of gross fattery
to all of the editors merely calling them few harsh
names to make the thing look WE'LL Judge that fol-
lowing Mr. Menskens tack, the editors have presented
hoax. Maybe they got Mr. Mencken to write it.
The attack" says that Dresser is played out (using
for some Nathanish the German word for
"played outO but says "hs experiments in realism
blazed path through the entanged wilderness of
tmentalsm." 1t isn't true Dresser created wilder
of words which is full sentimentalism Of Branch
Cabe the critic says that he has made good his boast
ito write perfectly of beautiful things" Mr. Cabel
does not write perfectly and his subjects often
pretty as beautiful.
ONeiII's Subjects
Third in line is Mr.. Eugene ONeill. ONeill>is cum
fortunate in his choice of subjects" I cannot make
out whether the objections that ONei writes about
Sailors negroes and prostitutes" that he does not
He has, actually written of these people and has aban
doned them. There, has never been anything wrong
with his Subjects they have had variety interest color
The criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra" Gas
lousy and degenerate group of characters it has
been my misfortune to the STACEY is sheer
buresque, carried little over the edge,
Boyd and Nathan
Mr.. Ernest Boyd is read out of this distinguished
company for being obscure. If Mr.. Boyd is obscure
it is not his fault. The critic further says that
Boyd has written authoritative studies of Irish
literature but, "as writer in his right, he is an
unknown quantity Ste. .-Beuve wrote hundreds of
essays other writers, and History of Port Royal;
was he, as writer in his right, unknown
quantity? Rubbish
Finally Mr.. George Jean Nathan is attacked after
fulsome praise dramatic critic, for being "char
latan They said the same thing of Shaw. Also that
he is a poseur
No wonder the editors published this tribute to them
selves. They were, at the time, getting out an
issue OF their magazine which has little life and is
thereby 10000 times entertaining than the two
successive still-birhs with which they began. The
article by Herbert Asbury the galoping COW and
other figures of the Barbary Coast is very amusing
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