"We intellectuals in Europe have always been poor, by
your standards over here. We have to make a very little food support
a great many ideas. But you have unlimited quantities of food,
and--well, we seek for the ideas, and we judge by analogy they must
exist--"
"But you don't find them?" I laughed.
"Well," said he, "I have come to seek them."
This talk occurred while we were strolling down our Broadway, in
Western City, one bright afternoon in the late fall of 1921. We
talked about the picture which Dr. Henner had recommended to me, and
which we were now going to see. It was called "The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari," and was a "futurist" production, a strange, weird freak
of the cinema art, supposed to be the nightmare of a madman. "Being
an American," said Dr. Henner, "you will find yourself asking, 'What
good does such a picture do?' You will have the idea that every work
of art must serve some moral purpose." After a pause, he added:
"This picture could not possibly have been produced in America.
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