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...Bald, burly, able Artist George Benjamin Luks, 65, onetime signpainter, circus Wagon decorator, newspaper cartoonist in Cuba, oldtime rowdy Bohemian, began to worry about making a sideshow spectacle of himself after promising the Artists' Cooperative Market in Manhattan that he would paint a portrait of Dancer Doris Humphrey, for charity, before an audience of gaping New Yorkers. Coming well fortified for the ordeal, Artist Luks leaped on the platform, shouted at the astonished gathering: "I'm George Luks and I'm a rare bird! . . . You might as well leave the platform, young woman...
...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...
Last week Founder Lamade's bald Son George, vice president, was in Manhattan to see what he could do about boosting the scant national advertising in Grit. The paper has prospered on circulation profits, but Benton & Bowles advertising agency discovered by the way Grit readers responded to a jelly-making contest last autumn that it should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking...
Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
...little man, he lives in a duplex apartment on Park Avenue, has never been photographed for the Press. Last week he was even reluctant to release a reproduction of an oil portrait belonging to his son. Calvin Bullock advertisements never carry the firm's address. Bushy-browed, slightly bald, he prefers talking about his collection of Napoleonana to talking business. Prized items include the personal chest which Napoleon carried on many of his campaigns, a bust of himself which Napoleon carried to St. Helena, Lord Nelson's dress sword, a pair of Lady Hamilton's earrings...