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...eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare's tail beard.- But beard critics said that the shaving command was conclusive proof that Ezekiel was smooth-shaven at the time he was doing his best prophesying. Since Ezekiel kept his standing as the Lord's prophet for many years afterward...
...Paul Gustave Dore's monumental illustrations of the Bible and of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri gave a large part of the last generation a thoroughgoing picture of Heaven and Hell. Last week at the Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work...
Another nominating speech by another Scott?Charles F. of lola, Kan.?put the name of Charles Curtis before the convention in renomination for the Vice-Presidency. Vice President Curtis won, 634 ¼-to-401½. Only in 1912, when Theo dore Roosevelt split the Party and paved the way to a Democratic victory, had the G. O. P. renominated its previous ticket. It would not have occurred on the first ballot had not the Pennsylvania faction switched its 75 votes from General Ed ward Martin, State chairman, to Curtis at the last moment...
...woman's dream of the life she would like to be able to look back on. Ruth Chatterton, as one of the richest women in the world, resists her hero (George Brent) to be true to her husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce and is gallant by transatlantic telephone. Men try to forget her but cannot. She fights against her better instincts...
Campaigning for Mayor of Seattle, John Francis Dore (pronounced "door") promised, if elected, to "unhinge the door" to the office so that the public could walk freely in upon him. Last week Mr. Dore, a stocky, florid criminal lawyer, got a chance to make good his promise when the citizens of Seattle chose him for Mayor over Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, by a record-breaking majority vote. Born & bred in Massachusetts, Mayor-elect Dore went West 20 years ago, learned his law by lamplight while reporting police news for Seattle newspapers. Clever, sarcastic, affable, he has made a reputation...