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Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze behind bars. Said Mr. Cruze: "I was the most surprised man in the world when I saw it. Mouth like a gargoyle, face like a frog, it made me look like an Apache or something worse. I told Decker I wouldn't accept it. I told him I wanted...
Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...
Engaged. Edward Estlin Cummings (e. e. cummings), 34, of Manhattan, mannered novelist (The Enormous Room), playwright (Him), poet (and, is 5) who likes to ignore capital letters, Wartime ambulance driver, son of a Unitarian minister of Cambridge, Mass.; to Anne Minnerly Barton, 31, of Manhattan, onetime wife of Caricaturist Ralph Barton...
...Caricaturist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born in London 54 years ago, deserted art school for "literary work." His genius is for turning platitudes into epigrams and vice versa; his reputation, for making paradoxes. Indolent, jovial, fat, he has been described as a "hansom cabful"; and the story runs that one day in a tram he rose, offered his seat to three women...
...more civilized effervescence from the incomparable caricaturist...