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...three years, with the collaboration of the Associated American Artists, Art Critic Thomas Craven has been sorting 2,500 U. S. lithographs and etchings into a big heap of rejections, a little heap of selections. His little heap appeared last week as a book* containing 100 (10 in. by 13 in.) black & white prints by such top-flight U. S. artists as Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, Grant Wood, for the first time brought together the most significant black-&-whites by outstanding U. S. artists in a handy, inexpensive form. Thoughtfully, the publishers perforated the binding...
...radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George Henry Payne and the Navy's Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, the Commission's only technical...
This year Chairman McNinch dragged FCC's brawls into Congress with a reorganization bill that would let him eliminate Commissioners Payne and Craven, remove many lesser FCC jobs from civil service. But neither Frank McNinch nor his Chief is so popular with Congress as he once was, and the FCC reorganization bill was shelved...
Marriage Revealed. William Robert Bradley, 21, orange-haired Sixth Earl of Craven; and Irene Meyrick, daughter of the late in-and-out-of-jail Mrs. Kate ("Queen of the London Night Clubs") Meyrick. The Earl's gallant, one-legged father caused a newspaper uproar in 1926 by eloping with another earl's wife, Countess ("Moral Turpitude") Cathcart...
...various other verbal flights by Critics Roger Fry, Thomas Craven, et al., Author Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry...