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Gloria Swanson, interviewed for London's weekly Sketch, said: "Skyscrapers drain their inhabitants of colour, and gradually kill them. . . . Half of the women of America are sex-starved. Their husbands cease to be lovers almost as soon as they are married. . . . The sex-starvation of those women is the explanation of a hundred American phenomena which might otherwise puzzle you. It explains their strange crusades, their extraordinary cliques and fetiches. . . . When I grow old, I want to have an old brain as well as an old body...
...style of the essays is sentimental, faintly whimsical, but is lacking in any real humor. But the book is perhaps suitable for a parlor table where its gay binding would add a note of colour and its very short essays allow you time to straighten your tie before welcoming your caller. If this be faint praise, let it be said that the another and his publishers could hardly have intended the book for anything more than the lightest of light reading...
...centuries will open in the Fogg Museum tomorrow. About 12 screens will be shown: among them is one specially interesting example of seventeenth century art, showing holiday-makers watching fans float on the Uji River. There is also a screen by Bunrin which is done in pure ink, without colour. Works by Bunrin are hardly available in Japan today as they are esteemed very highly...
...this morning, is an exhibition of the paintings of Dr. Denman W. Ross. The paintings have a two-fold interest; in addition to their intrinsic merit as works of art, they have been produced as illustrations of the theories which Dr. Ross has developed in his scientific study of colour, representation and design, and which he has published in his well-known books, On Drawing and Painting, and The Painter's Palette. It is obvious, at once, that these two points of view and interests are really one. It is because of Dr. Ross understanding of the craft of painting...
...picture of the Lady Sewing is permeated with a sweet sentiment and a dellcate tenderness. The organization, both in design and in color is remarkably stable and satisfying. The picture suggests the light and colour of Vermeer, and was certainly produced under his influence. The exhibition is clear evidence of an interest and delight in nature, life...