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...that Maurice Sterne has reached the highest point to which intelligence and technique, without genius, can bring a painter. His color is excellent, his drawing impeccable, he studiously avoids the academic. But Maurice Sterne is never quite satisfied with his work. He constantly pesters his dealers to let him dab at his old canvases again. In the introduction to last week's catalog he wrote...
...President-elect's arrival at Warm Springs climaxed an arduous and eventful week. In Manhattan he had watched Socialite Artist Natalie Van Vleck, who went to work in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dab the finishing touches to his portrait. By going 16 hours at a stretch, he had kept as many appointments as 50 per day. He had found time to address retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and "the Harvard family" at the University's club. He had endorsed the back-to- the-farm movement and Secretary of State Stimson's reiterated Far Eastern policy of nonrecognition...
...artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth we thought they was a bunch of wild Indians and maybe some of them still is. In those days they'd take a canvas out into the field and begin painting on it. First, they'd put a dab of paint of one color and take about ten steps back to see how it looked . . . and by the time that picture was finished what with all the walking back and forth to look at it ?there wasn't nothing left of the vegetable garden the artist was tramping...
...Scene. In his last harangue to the jury, Lawyer Littleton quoted Shakespeare on the subject of "a good name" until he even made Oilman Sinclair snuffle and dab his eyes. Sinclair grasped Lawyer Littleton's plump hand when he sat down. Sinclair's wife and mother sobbed softly. When the jury returned from its deliberations, Sinclair stood up. Littleton remained seated. The Sinclair ladies had withdrawn to a corridor...
...Dolittle is probably the only man in the world who talks animal language-in all dialects. His adventures are varied -one of the most entertaining being his connivance in the escape of Sophie, the trained seal. The good doctor's intimates are all with him-Jip, the dog; Dab-Dab, the duck; Too-Too, the owl; Gub-Gub, the pig; Matthew Mugg, the Cat's meatman. The book is excellent propaganda for the prevention of cruelty to animals...