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Contrary to popular opinion, Paul Gauguin was not the first crack artist to paint Tahiti. That distinction belongs to the father of U. S. mural painting, John La Farge.* Artist La Farge left a brood of talented, talkative descendants and a mass of pictures, but he lacked color for the general public...
...motives are unimportant. A good thing is a good thing, however accomplished. If more such starry-eyed innocents appear in the New Deal brood, we shall have to withdraw our uncompromising snobbery; they must be judged of themselves, not for their parenthood. President Roosevelt deserves the greatest credit for showing politicians of the most successful variety a way of extending indefinitely and forever the scope of honest and intelligent administration in government. Give your friends longer and better jobs; insure that when they die off they will be replaced by their betters...
Brother Hugh Howell, last of the blacksmith's brood, was for years a satellite of, but no relation to, famed Atlanta Lawyer Albert Howell, brother of Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. Hugh Howell emerged from obscurity when he stage-managed the Roosevelt pre-election junket to Georgia. With the rise of Eugene Talmadge, Hugh Howell was made chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Brother Hugh did not forget his older brother Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which...
...medium for the bland, effervescent personality of the American stage actor, George M. Cohan. Besides that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...
...associate in Oology, Eggman Harlow will brood over one of the finest collections of old eggs in the world, second only to that of the lamented Riverside Farm. Adding a touch of piquancy to the announcement is the statement that the appointment is for a three-year term...