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Publisher Alfred Knopf personally wrote the blurb for this light-minded satire?an honor he usually reserves for more serious, "worthy" works. Says he : "I have never published a first novel with such a feeling of absolute assurance in its success." Sexy Artist Arno (New Yorker) has drawn a faithful portrait of the heroine for the jacket. If you wish to be entertained and hope to be a little shocked, Nymph Errant should give you at least half your wish...
...Seldes and a few others contribute articles that would be illuminating anywhere. But, compared to the flickering literary illumination, it is the 140 pictures that shed real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...
Like Peter Arno's Here Goes The Bride, this play is the dramatic venture of a clever satiric artist. Will Cotton (caricatures in Vanity Fair). His play is not so clever, takes a long time to get going, but is pleasantly enough acted by Dorothy Gish and Henry Hull. It is the third production of the New York Repertory Company, the bright theatrical group which revived The Streets of New York two months back...
...PETER ARNO'S CIRCUS?Peter Arno? Liveright...
...Peter Arno's (Curtis Arnoux Peters) earlier drawings shows an upright U. S. tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter...