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Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in Grey a clever pen, converted him into a reporter, in 1908 gave him his first big assignment: a Paris air show. When Cub Grey pointed out that he spoke no French his editor tut-tutted: "At least you won't be misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever...
...Stein operetta, Four Saints m Three Acts. Yet Maurice Grosser's painting belongs to a school which is just what the doctor ordered for critics who carry on indiscriminately about "modernism" in art (see p. 36). Grosser owes nothing to conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however, is color. Exasperated, like other young perfectionists, at the chemical impermanence of certain modern ready-made paint, Grosser began some years ago to grind and mix his own colors, a process in which he has taken infinite pains. Result is a clean brilliance of color made...
...specialist in the law of property, Casner was adviser to Volumes I and II of the Restatement of the Law of Property, general editor of "Treatise on the Law of Property," and draftsman of the Uniform Property Act approved for adoption by the various states...
Milwaukee's employment agency is a dark draftsman named Eugene J. Buerk. Nazi Buerk's wife is sick at home, so he interviews applicants at the Highland Cafe (see cut, p. 15). He talks to as many as 100 per day, prefers skilled mechanics and machinists, particularly in the automotive trades. Those who accept his proposition must pay their own way to Manhattan, plus $35 toward third-class fare on a German-American liner. Remainder of the fare (about $110) reportedly is paid by a German industrial cartel (Siemens & Halske; Volkswagen; Augsburg Machine Co.; Bosch; Daimler; Opel&Wanderwerke...
...impeccable conventional draftsman when he wanted to be, Picasso produced in the next period a number of line drawings of Ingres-like delicacy, including several of his wife. The "classic" pictures of these years (1918-25) were really of several kinds: monumental, massive giantesses which to some critics symbolize the all-maternal space of the universe; softly bulky, grand but graceful human figures that recall such Italian masters as Paolo Veronese; out-and-out Greco-Romanesque figure compositions in various stages of archaism, action and distortion. His production was enormous. At Gisors, about 35 miles from P'aris...