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James Owen Mahoney Jr., latest winner, was born in Dallas 24 years ago, graduated from Southern Methodist University before going to Yale. Twice he has won prizes for the Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics...
...give a ist Prize of $25 in pennies and a hot mince pie to the best Fake of the year. The Fakirs Ball was even more appreciated by the public which quickly discovered that the Fakirs, in their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper way to run a costume ball. There was no débutante-encumbered Pageant. Costumes could be anything at all, and very little of that. Broadway took the Fakirs to its bosom, as did collegians and Greenwich Village girls. Popularity was the death of the Fakirs...
EXPRESSION IN AMERICA-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). W7hen scripture became only literature. Literatus Lewisohn avers, "it was necessary for literature to become scripture." Modern literati are no mere craftsmen, do not play the beaux to pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks out to experience for him. to interpret for him, to illuminate and to guide him, to face for him the inscrutable. . . ." With such vicarious help, common-or-garden men, in order to climb heavenward, need only keep their glasses polished and read the scriptures as they come.* In his impressions...
Born to a rich family, Florence found no pleasure in parties, housekeeping, beaux or reading-to-Fath.er, as did most of her early Victorian contemporaries. She wanted to Do Something. Aged 34. she scandalized her family by taking up nursing, a profession which at that time chiefly attracted tipplers and bawds. When the Crimean War broke out in 1854 she got Sydney Herbert, Secretary for War, to commission her to take a corps of nurses to the Scutari hospital in Turkey. There she conquered official red tape and unspeakable conditions, won the approbation of Victoria and the nation. Back home she threatened...
Although the Waldorf will frown on rowdy conventions, it will welcome such dignified assemblages as the General Motors Convention in January and that of the American College of Surgeons in February. Loose and liquorish though it always becomes, the Beaux-Arts Ball retains enough arty prestige to have been invited (and obtained) away from the Astor across town. The Canadian Club will have headquarters in the hotel...