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Luis Quintanilla, 39, muralist, etcher, humanist and Spanish Republican, held his first one-man show in the U. S. last week. Pierre Matisse was his sponsor, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos his patrons and apologists. On the sober walls of the Matisse Gallery 39 of Quintanilla's etchings were lined up, all handsomely mounted and glassed. Critics, collectors, and ladies in long mink coats all hurried up to see them. But Luis Quintanilla was not excited. In Madrid behind the bars of the Central Prison he was fighting for his life...
Mary Hoover, who had worked with Luis Quintanilla on some of his Madrid frescoes, brought a heavy package of etched zinc plates to the U. S. Author Hemingway paid for pulling a small edition of proofs, and Pierre Matisse was glad to give them a Manhattan showing. John Dos Passos wrote a short, able introduction to the catalog. Ernest Hemingway, still hot under his size 16 collar, pounded out a 1,500-word essay that described his friend's plight, his art, and formed a collector's item. Excerpt...
...past directed "Charles and Mary," "Napeleon Intrudes," and "The Watched Pot." Last spring he was the director of the Broadway success "The Pure in Heart," written by John Howard Lawson, also author of "Success Story." In the summer he managed the Millbrook, N. Y. Theatre. To him John Dos Passes dedicated three plays, including "The Garbage Man," and "The Moon is a Gong...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...
...Malcolm Cowley was born 35 years ago on a western Pennsylvania farm, spent all his summers there. He left Harvard in 1917 to drive a munitions truck in the French Army, later transferred to the American Ambulance Service, like his colleagues Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos. After several years' free-lancing in Manhattan and two years in France, he settled down in the U. S. to make his literary fortune, bought an upstate farm (on which he made the first payment with a cash poetry prize), was an editor of the late Broom, wrote...