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...artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom...
...Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
...activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that it was time for the House to live up to its tradition...
Died. Theodore F. Shuey, 88, dean of official reporters in the U. S. Senate; after a six-week illness; at Swope, Va. He joined the Senate staff at the age of 23, recorded the induction of every Vice President since Schuyler Colfax (1869), never missed a working day in 65 years. Friendly to most Senators, he edited and rewrote many a turgid declamation before entering it in the Congressional Record. To honor him, Senators ceased talking for one minute last week...
...found presiding over the House more strenuous and tiring than he had expected. According to his friends, he took the Vice-Presidential nomination in the hope of shifting to the comparatively easy job of ruling the unruly Senate. If elected, he will be the second man (first: Schuyler Colfax) in U. S. history who has presided over both the branches of Congress...