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...Latest addition to St. Gandhi's sisterhood in his model colony on the banks of the Sbarmati River at Ahmedabad is 21-year-old Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook...
While editors, lecturers, friends-of-the-President and other Washington soothsayers still struggled to interpret the Delphic Wickersham report in Washington on Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 2), public attention was fixed briefly last week on the world's only other Prohibited republic, Finland. Finland too is troubled with speakeasies, bootleggers, hijackers, et al. Finland too is faced with a Presidential election in the near future. Finland too has a growing groundswell of political Wetness. And not unnaturally, Finland too last week acquired a Wickersham Commission, officially a "committee of experts to investigate thoroughly the social conditions created by Prohibition...
While visitors at the new French Museum (see above) admired the portraits of beautiful women by a century of great French painters, another more specialized showing of lovely ladies was on view last week. The Delphic Studios showed photographs and water color drawings by the latest smartchart phenomenon, Cecil Beaton of London, under the auspices of Mrs. Marie Sterner, able Manhattan dealer, who found the exhibition not quite suitable for her own gallery. Photographer Beaton is one of those sensitive, talented, emotional and precocious young men who seem increasingly numerous in Britain, traditional mother of the bulldog breed. Long...
...writing of Mural Painter José Clemente Orozco of Mexico last issue, TIME said: . . . "He was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator of the since defunct Delphic Studios." TIME was in error. Closed for the summer only, Delphic Studios reopens this week with an exhibition by famed Photographer Edward Weston of Carmel, Calif...