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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mickey Mouse's creator, Walter ("Walt") Disney is a slim, sharp-faced young man (31) of Irish-German descent. His father, a contractor, let him study drawing for a few months at the Chicago Art Institute before the family moved to Kansas City. He spent six years of his childhood on a Missouri farm watching the animal ancestors of Mickey's pals. In school he early learned the schoolboy trick of drawing figures on the margins of his textbooks, graduating the poses on succeeding pages so that when he flipped the leaves rapidly, the figures seemed to move...
...first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells...
Chief Hearst gunman for 1932 is 75-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, creator of "Happy Hooligan." Never an art student, Cartoonist Opper worked long for oldtime Puck, joined the Hearst press in 1899, first won fame & fortune with his cartoons of theMcKinley-Bryan campaign of 1900. For 30 years Arthur Brisbane has contributed political ideas for the Opper pencil. Early in this campaign "Happy Hooligan" was allowed to lapse when Publisher Heartst put Mr. Opper to work on a daily front-page series entitled "Erbie and 'Is Playmates" * In these cartoons the President was always depicted as a fat little...
...directors has long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, that bought them. A week later...
...institution already has an endowment of some $30,000,000. John Pierpont Morgan gave it $2,000,000. George Fisher Baker & his late father jointly gave an-other $2,000,000. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial also gave $2,000,000. But the largest donor and virtual creator of the medical centre was the late generous Payne Whitney. His gifts totaled some...