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"Arty" art has fallen into disrepute. In these days even such decorative sophisticates as Max Beerbohm steal their stencils from humanity. Aubrey Beardsley, before he died, ceased to laugh quite so gayly or wave so wildly. He joined the Roman Catholic Church and begged that all his bad and, above...
The miniature chapel of Union Theological Seminary, long famed training school for divines,* was most reverently crowded. Upstairs, in a room on the second floor, was an overflow of people, radio-attentive. As the organ struck into "The Church's One Foundation," a flashing, gleaming pageant advanced in academic...
THE EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded...
George Inness Jr. died last week in Cragsmoor, N. Y. He was a competent minor painter with a talent for controversial subjects. Born in Paris in 1854, he studied in Rome and Paris, was given a gold medal by the Salon of 1900, sold a bucolic canvas called Shepherd and...
There is Professor Murdock in English 76 at noon in Harvard 3. He talks of Lancelot Andrewes and Joseph Hall this morning, worthy divines both, and yet jovial souls. Longinus and "The Sublime" is Professor Elton's subject in Comparative Literature 29. Three o'clock is an hour when one...