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...Chicago tool & die manufacturer named Clem Caditz began collecting Matisse prints last spring. He bought armfuls of them, but what he really yearned for was a Matisse original. The hitch was that all the originals by famous painters cost too much. Caditz sat down and wrote Matisse a letter: he had just $50 to $100 to spend; could the old master draw him something for that kind of money...
...head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order job for Clem Caditz. said Painter Matisse, was "completely exceptional...
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...
Dugald Fletcher captains and strokes Eliot with Dick Almy, 7; Tom Adams, 6; George Walcott, 5; Clem Despard, 4; George Ames, 3; Ned Davis, 2; and Club Morgan, bow. Dick Mann coxes the boat...
Eliot has turned in the best time of the season so far over the mile and has been bolstered since the last race by the addition of Clem Despard and Rupe Maynard both only recently demoted from the varsity. The Elephants have lost to Kirkland besides Winthrop...