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...PETER ARNO'S LADIES & GENTLEMEN-Simon & Schuster...
Accent on Sex. At 47, Peter Arno is an old master. In Ladies and Gentlemen, he has put together a fat retrospective show (246 drawings, 1926-51) of what he regards as his best cartoons. With an accent on sex almost as bold as his brush strokes, Arno scores brilliantly as a social hiss-torian of café society...
...Peter Arno...
...This week, in The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, the magazine took a lingering backward glance at the fun it has had with the nation's manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor has taken, from Peter Arno's old-maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many...
...Tyrolean, Bemelmans has turned out a score of illustrated books, has won a snug niche in current popular art. His firmly funny India ink lines are backed by broad, patternmaking blobs of color that are cool as summer showers. He is like Raoul Dufy, James Thurber and Peter Arno tossed into salad and marinated in strong dark beer...