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...Peter Arno...
Academicians need not have been surprised at a controversial picture from Charles Dana Gibson. Now bald and 63, he was the Peter Arno of the 1890's. From his nervous, scratchy pen sprang that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...gentler satirist than Leech or Arno, Artist Gibson seldom made fun of the Gibson Girl herself. Occasionally in the drawings which made Life the most popular humorous weekly in the country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl would exhibit fear of mice, embarrassment at the shortness of her bathing skirt, or a tendency to buy extravagant dresses. But for the most part the Gibson Girl remained the goddess of a sentimental generation, admirable always. It was through the strange minor characters that surrounded her that Artist Gibson was "exceedingly...
...studs for his tutees?....lousy I calls it....I thought all these English manors had acouts....battalions of varietry and that sort of thing ....well just one more before the fish eggs....very bad on an empty stomach ....oops, dearie, mind my bustle.... did you hear about Peter Arno and the bus boy from Sardi's?....well, it appears....it must be, I have it straight from Winchell....and he knows about that sort of thing....just one more before the fish eggs....Winter Place you aay?....I don't think they'll let us....you'll remember last time...
First coup credited to Hearst strategy: capture of Peter Arno, most famed main drawing card among New Yorker's artists...