Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Cruze thinks of money in big terms. For a long time his Paramount salary was $1,000 a day-whether he worked or not. Last week he sued John Decker, artist, for $200,000 damages...
...Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze behind bars. Said Mr. Cruze: "I was the most surprised man in the world when I saw it. Mouth like a gargoyle, face like a frog, it made me look like an Apache or something worse. I told Decker I wouldn't accept it. I told him I wanted...
...Artist Decker then displayed the portrait in a Hollywood art store window with the legend: ''James Cruze-in Prison for Debt." The Cruze suit followed. Said Artist Decker: "When a man employs an artist to paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...
Died. Admiral the Honorable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, 92, of London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland...
Yale, however, appears to be far worse off than we are. She has one of the country's greatest offensive backs in Garvey and one of the best defensive backs in the country in Decker; yet both are in crippled condition. Her attack lacks deception, and she does not seem to be "right", either physically or mentally...