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...Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy D. Miller, the musical comedian. Flournoy Miller's stage partner, Aubrey Lyles, was there, as one of the principal speakers. And of course there was the guest of honor, Actress Florence Mills, just back from...
...record. He clicked off his next round in 72, forcing players with more than the respectable total of 155 out of play. ? His pluperfect form lapsed to mere perfection in a third round of par 73. He finished with another 72, six strokes ahead of two British professionals?Aubrey Boomer and Fred Robson?who had brilliantly equaled the previous tournament record...
...last time I saw Aubrey Beardsley," wrote a critic, "was in the summer of 1896 ... he was then seriously ill, indeed not expected to live, but he was in high spirits. . . . Although it was a day of brilliant sunshine, the curtains were drawn, and the room lighted by many tall candles. Aubrey Beardsley, clad in a yellow dressing gown, and wearing red slippers turned up at the toes, was working. As I entered he waved, laughed his gay laugh, then coughed horribly...
...town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion...
...Arty" art has fallen into disrepute. In these days even such decorative sophisticates as Max Beerbohm steal their stencils from humanity. Aubrey Beardsley, before he died, ceased to laugh quite so gayly or wave so wildly. He joined the Roman Catholic Church and begged that all his bad and, above all, his obscene drawings, should be destroyed. " 'Fourmi!' quoted a biographer, ' n'insulte pas ces divines cigales...