Word: chromo
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...artistic sensibilities of Joseph Esposito, 14-year-old Italian of the Dore Elementary School in Chicago, were upset in his classroom by a chromo of George Washington. So he saved $85 by selling ice cream, privately commissioned an artist to copy the Stuart portrait of Washington which he had seen in the Chicago Art Institute. Last week he presented the oil painting to his school. He is behind in his studies, but he has given boards of education, throughout the land, something on which to ponder...
LULU BELLE-A sharply colored chromo of uneasy virtue in Manhattan's Negro colony...
...GREEN HAT - Michael Arlen's gaudy chromo of the life and loves of Iris March (Katharine Cornell...
...GREEN HAT-Mr. Arlen's gaudy chromo made believable and moving by the performance of Katharine Cornell...
...turns out to be unfaithful. She leaves for England-a great actress but a failure in the home. All this is told very seriously, and with a singular tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would accept it. He would be much more likely to leave it for his fellow city employe with...