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Show oo SAVANT IMPRESSED BY PSYCHOLOGY IN NEW BENNETT FILM i"- there such a thing as carrying optimism op-timism to excess .' A noted psychplO; pisi who saw "Whal Every Woman Learns, the picture attraction star-rlna star-rlna Enid Bennetl at ihe Alhambra 'healre, when the film was shown in New York, remarked upon the ,ie,-p understanding of human nature which ' Thomas II ln e exhibited in produc i ing it. 'This picture Is a fine and true ex- ample of ihe fallacy Of the epicurean philosophy Of life." said lhe prole? sor The belief that 'he proper way I to live is for pleasure only and that I the logical attitude i b to regard every ! thing as a joke as the heroine in his Story does, falls down ab-olnteh when nc is confronted with a creat crisis and tragedy. Then it is ihat the se-,rious se-,rious reserves in a person's character jare called upon to exercise ihem- selves. If we have lived for pleasure only, such reserves do not exist and H is like calling upon a long neglected muBcle to function it falls down ..bso ilulc-!. Fortunately in the case of Am Porie.Hque there is a finer strain in ner oharactef that has no- been destroyed de-stroyed by her false mode of living, and ii leaps to the surface When sor row overtakes her. Had It not been ! present , she would have sunk to the : depths. " |