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...Marc Peter presented to President Hoover Sculptor Ernest Durig. Sculptor Durig presented to President Hoover a plaster bust of George Washington so large (seven feet high) it had to be left outside on the White House lawn. Asked the puzzled President: "What shall we do with it?" Representative Sol Bloom, director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, was summoned to find an answer...
...hallway ornamented with portraits of himself and his wife, he would have reached a small cubicular office in which, almost submerged by the litter of trinkets, statuets, posters, portraits, folders, busts, pitchers, seals, plaques, gewgaws, jim-cracks and other Washingtonian bric-a-brac, he would have found Sol Bloom of Manhattan, associate director of the nationwide celebration. Commissioner Bloom is a small, round-faced 61-year-old Jew of Polish descent who was born in Illinois, raised in San Francisco and introduced to U. S. politics in 1923 when Tammany Hall, knowing him as a successful music publisher...
...chairman of the Bicentennial Commission, organized in 1924 and put to work in 1930, Congressman Bloom has been in charge of disseminating posters, pamphlet biographies, music, the George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes...
Heretofore, as factory worker, bookkeeper, reporter, theatrical producer, furniture dealer, realtor, concessionaire, song-publisher and showman, Congressman Bloom has had small time to master the fine points of esthetics. He cannot find the time to master them now, but he has familiarized himself with the career of Washington and considers it his principal duty to see that others do so also. When Congress tried to cut down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom...
RECAPTURED -Colette- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though civilization has pretty well rubbed the romantic bloom off what the Bible and lawyers still call adultery, the theme was for a time almost a monopoly of the essentially unromantic French, still appeals strongly to their rationalizing writers. "Colette." whose books continue to be translated for a growing U. S. audience, has had her share of this national literary preoccupation. Colette-readers will recognize in the heroine of Recaptured the same Renée Neree of Renée, La Vagabonde (TIME, March 23). Renée, retired from the stage...