Word: caricaturist
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...Beerbohm, merry British author and caricaturist, returned from his Italian expatriation to tell Londoners: "London has been cosmopolitanized, democratized, commercialized, mechanized, standardized and vulgarized. One feels, in showing London to a foreigner, rather as Virgil may have felt in showing hell to Dante. It is a bright, cheerful, salubrious hell, certainly, but still, to my mind, hell...
...this grandiloquent setting Clark Gable acts about as much like a newspaper man as a caricaturist would of a movie version of one. In addition I should like to ask the few readers who have not yet tired of this review how, many of them have ever seen a city editor at a Broadway first night in a tailcoat, or, later another evening, at the opening of a most ultra night club on New York's riverfront. No, it all seemed a bit too movieish for a news-man's life. (The rest of you can stop...
...best portraits in the show were of Mrs. Peggy Bacon Brook. Very much an artist in her own right, dynamic, sharp-nosed Peggy Bacon is a famed U. S. caricaturist with a sly habit of ridiculing herself more savagely than any of her sitters. Her verse has a dagger-like point that wounds and wins. Always the gentleman, Husband Brook endows his wife's portraits with polite dignity and even a certain beauty...
...seems to me that you have more right to picture the President in a serious and sincere manner in a radio broadcast than a caricaturist has to draw a distorted cartoon. ... Or supposed statements of the President are quoted in humorous magazines, likewise giving the public wrong impressions. Will Rogers always glibly tells of some meeting he had with this or that President, quoting fanciful statements made by the latter. If others can use the President's name, pictures or statements for the purpose of joking, why should not "The March of TIME" be free to make a pretense...
Married. Consuelo Pani, daughter of Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's Minister of Finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation to the late World Monetary & Economic Conference; and Diego Covarrubias (first cousin of famed Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias), son of the late Miguel Covarrubias, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Great Britain, brother-in- law of Rinaldo de Lima e Silva, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; in Mexico City...