Word: byard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Review's inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
Southport's Taylor. For a socialite young woman to take up sculpture as a diversion has been traditional since Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney first started modeling. For a socialite young woman to become a good sculptor is definitely news. Such news broke last week when Mrs. Wynne Byard Taylor gave her first one-man show at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery. Critics who had never heard of her before were charmed by a number of figures in mahogany, walnut, bronze, pottery, modeled with sure fingers and considerable masculine purpose. In particular they inspected approvingly a leering bronze faun with the shoulders...
Ruddy, personable Wynne Byard Taylor is the daughter of famed children's specialist, Dr. Dever S. Byard. After studying at Barnard College for two years, she preferred sculpture to a formal debut, worked under Antoine Bourdelle and Archipenko. Her husband, Engineer Edward Taylor, has also a doctor father. They live quietly in Southport, Conn, with their two children who are seldom sick. Like most serious artists who do not need to sell their works to live Sculptor Taylor has no eye for publicity. The day before her exhibit opened she dumped a truckload of statuary at the gallery door...