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...Jean de Botton is the only French painter accredited by the British Government to paint the Coronation ceremony inside Westminster Abbey (by request of the Duke of Gloucester). Yet when a friend took twelve of his bright canvases around to Manhattan's Harriman Gallery, the dealers knew next to nothing about him. After looking at the pictures, however, they decided promptly to hang them, did so this week...
...Jean de Botton is the bellwether of a small group of French painters who confess that the chief aim of their art is to give pleasure. They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves...
...twelve pictures in de Botton's first one-man show in the U. S. are notable for sinewy, flexible composition and color, a sort of high-spirited withdrawal from both cynicism and enthusiasm. Some of the small figures are minutely painted but faces seem to bore him; they are indicated by a few haphazard strokes, or simply by highlights on forehead and chin...
...installment of class buttons has arrived and may be obtained at Leavitt & Peirce's or from C. H. Crombie '14, Thayer 39. Seniors are requested to get their buttons from the ones to whom they gave the order. The price will be 35 cents instead of 30 cents. SENIOR BOTTON COMMITTEE...
...line-up will probably be as follows: Freshmen. Andover. Burgess, r.e. l.e., Cates. Jones, r.t. 1. I., Botchford. Jicks, r.g. l.g., Weeks. Bleakie, c. c., Barney. C. H. Robinson, l.g. r.g., Kinney. Dodge, l.t. r.t., Coonley. Harrison, l.e. r.e., Matthews. Marshall, q.b. q.b., Botton. Pruyn, l.h.b. r.h.b., Bollins. Mackay, r.h.b. l.h.b., Owsley. Skilten, f.b. f.b., Levine...