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These little gems of solace and advice are produced by six Chicagoans of prominence whom Editor Malloy talked into counseling the trouble-smitten. The advisers: Judges Joseph Sabath and Justin F. McCarthy; Debutante Judy Waller; University of Chicago Coed Beata Mueller; Jessie Binford, "mother" of Chicago's Juvenile Court; and Mrs. Leo P. Cummings, mother of eleven. To do the anonymous but necessary paper work, Editor Malloy transplanted from his woman's page kindly little Mary Dougherty, a veteran of newspapering who once ran her own feature syndicate...
Nothing brings out the artist in able Painter Julien Binford like a chocolaty skin. His Negroes are something that Negroes admire. Sixteen new Binfords made his one-man show last week at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries look like a black-belt village on Saturday afternoon. The canvases showed Negroes playing harmonicas, shooting craps, teaching Sunday school, and a vigorous study of two bucks locked together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light...
Born in Powhatan County, Va. of an old Southern family, tall, good-looking Julien Binford was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship ($2,500) in 1932, spent three years studying in Paris. Returning to the U.S. with a charming French wife, Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in Virginia, started farming, painting the local Negroes. He also succeeded in arousing the local white population. Commissioned last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing...
Said a past president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy: "It is one of the most horrible things I've ever seen." Said Bishop James Cannon Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
...mural for a Negro church at Shiloh, Va. This is one of the rare occasions that a Negro congregation has commissioned a white artist to decorate its church. The mural, unveiled with impressive ceremonies, forms the background to the church's baptismal pool. For this job Painter Binford was paid in produce. "The local Negroes," he explains, "who have spent months posing for and watching me paint this mural, inaugurated for my benefit and unknown to me a 'Harvest Home' in their church." Now the Binfords have enough preserves, potatoes, beets, corn, chickens to tide them over...