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...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...
...sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL! Artist Arno painted these scenes in black writing ink with washes of lampblack. His lines are brisk, graceful. They grotesquely exaggerate his figures, deftly point his themes...
...natural that Artist Arno should find his niche in an urbane journal of fripperies and follies. Such a journal is the weekly New Yorker which, since its inception four years ago, has contained his work. The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties. It is a chic Baedecker for those who will be chic. It was in this magazine that Artist Arno exploited-his famed Whoops Sisters, a pair of blithe Victorian crones who swept with muffs and bonnets about the city, never had their shoes off while the fleet was in, stood...
Machiavelli has become little more than an adjective signifying ruthless scheming duplicity. The present biography makes it quite clear that a man is behind the adjective, a true Florentine who slung mud and cobble stones in street-fights along the Arno, swapped bawdy yarns over a noggin of wine, curried favor with whatever political power there happened...
...Hall's single column sketches and headings are in the best New Yorker style, but the two best layouts in the issue are by Batchelder and Hichborn. Mr. Batchelder's Peter Arno picture (Arno wasn't so fancy in New Haven two or three years ago when his name was Curt Peters) is fully as good as that satirical fellow could do himself, and the halitosis ad is what is popularly known as lifelike. How many in the class can give this little girl an identifying hand...