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...magazine prides itself more on the chic, the utter modernity of its readers than Editor Frank Crowninshield's glossy smartchart Vanity Fair. In its blithe, monthly blurbs Vanity Fair pictures its subscribers as impeccably draped ladies and gentlemen in rhomboidal furniture, who sigh with appreciation at the dissonances of Darius Milhaud and will scarcely trouble themselves to look at painting earlier than that of Amadeo Modigliani...
...short cinema "sportlights," editing his magazine The American Golfer, which he recently sold to publisher Condé Nast. Once a year he demonstrates his knowledge of golf by competing in the artists' and writers' championship in Palm Beach. Last week, after eliminating his fellow Nast editor, Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, he won the tournament for the third time, beating Jefferson Machamer, Manhattan artist, 2 and 1. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, with a handicap of 35, qualified with 140 for 18 holes, then lost his first match without winning a single hole...
Among those who have lent drawings in their possession for this occasion are: The New Yorker, Mr. F. Crowninshield and the CRIMSON...
...daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects for polite conversation. There...
...Modiglianis were pompously hung and framed. Well-tailored attendants mingled with the visitors, distributed lavish programs. The lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry...