the Ealtor of the "NomCuma Dany News! ent Guasrenitions letter regarding SuymIn reply to your correspond-
Te may. Interest. him to know that Dall Is Conelgered one othe Teaing exponents of palntng the Surrealist schoo, would be dincul to describe the ure of lis work In few words, 10 stale" thal" his. personal Sharactereles gute. prominently. In fusion of mind.
He may be a Surrealist, but he Is not a fanatic; at least he is Sin—As a regular reader of your Alm critiques 1 find that whilst they no. doubt may be they Ineline to subscribe only to the view. of the masses, that is. 98 por cent. of movie-goers. The more intelligent type—the remaining 2 por cent, of which Tam one—usually differ in thought to your critics! "But what-over it may be, films are made for: the masses and' for the everlasting. and elusive money, so why worry?
Incidentally, masses in Shanghat demand very ttle for their money and are' very easily salisted—for example, I pay $1 for the cheapest. eat in one of our big cinemas—say GS 35 cents, and this Is the programme shown:
245 to 930 gramophone records. tonallness pleasing, which isnot]
the cise with present-day art 233 {9838 toty setae though some cis fonts scenes ibe sntace cee rei what's coming. from the subsonsclous shock at the 945 to 11 rst' meeting, for his astral plane As I have not actuall clocked the values are more inclined to arouse times the above is guess-work. But turbing emotions than otherwise. to'an intelligent person (ike the vader Dall ig a revolutionary in writer) the idea is quite clear, every sense, a fervent supporter of Freud's theory of symbolic dreams, Now In America, where costs are' and a psycho-analyst of paranoiac high and. the standard of entertain-aberrations. However, Involved and ment good and people demand value anomalous as they may sem, his for their money, this is what T got compositions are always to be ad~ for 38 cents at a movie house equal-mired for their accomplished ing ¢ not surpassing any in Shang-draughtsmanship—of which his amazing perspective is 9 distinct feature—and astonishingly ighly-] 2 Eattgon or Carney Snished painting technique 'A. be 8. 1. uy of it—for half an Hour oF Fo.
Vandevil of the at cose—and Shanghai, Feb. 10.
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