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...blurs, cloud-patterned, home over a hill to a fold of peaceful and fleecy sleep; valleys folded in mist, green V's in the breast-hollow of a hill-range, ponds lying like shields at sunset, fishing boats blown out of shimmer to the white shadow of a cliff patched by a marvelous tiny woman, waiting, orchards in May, acres of blossoms pale and adream with the promise of bees and a deathless summer. Often he would paint two or three pictures on the same canvas; starting to correct a defect in a pastoral scene, a new idea would...
...German, Schwarz) who would, for the sake of anything, make life miserable for any dumb beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured every baby in the world to his death. I felt like writing to TIME and telling to TIME...
Quite right, we are altogether unable to realize the artistic qualities of a director who forces horses over a cliff to hideous agony and death and then takes pictures of them! The only people who could are the "strong-minded" persons such as Busch...
...With the puerile squeamishness of most Americans you seem unable to appreciate that when director Schwarz of the German U.F.A. picture company, was presented with a script in which two horses were supposed to fall off a cliff and be killed, his artistic honesty allowed him no other course than to follow the script. Some of your readers sneered at me when I wrote you about von Richthofen?and you, of course, printed their sneers [TIME, Dec. 14, 28]. No German would have done that! We Germans?many of us at least?are strong enough to see the world...
...driving a Miller Special at an average speed of 94.63 miles an hour, crossed the 400-mile mark first, received $20,000 for winning the race, $9,600 more for covering the fastest lap, $10,000 more from accessory manufacturers. Second: Harry Hartz also in a Miller Special. Third: Cliff Woodbury in a Boyle Special...