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...news from Mr. Bat'a's stepbrother, Jan Bat'a. Said Jan, "There has been a terrible accident to Thomas' plane." Before he could break the news further Mrs. Bat'a collapsed in a dead faint. Swiftly the Bat'a secretariat moved to drape every factory window & door in black. But hardly was the draping finished, hardly were black flags hoisted to half-mast all over Zlin than the psychological error was realized. Down came the drapes and flags-"things which our First Working Partner would not have wished...
Perhaps the most important artists represented are Benjamin Karfiol, Morris Kantor, and Reginald Marsh. Karfiol has four pictures in the exhibit: "Picnic", "Torso", "Pine Island", and "The Yellow Drape." Two large canvases, "Staircase" and "Still Life with Glass Bottle" are the works of Morris Kantor, whose more recent pictures hint toward Victorian subjects treated in the Modern Manner. In the two temper paintings "Tenth Avenue" and "Locomotive Watering," Reginald Marsh has suppressed the brilliant coloring which formerly characterized his pieces...
Whereas the accumulative glamour of past meetings cannot be said to drape today's contest in the robe of tradition, there yet exists that keen rivalry and high interest which is always present when teams of manifest training and ability take to the field. Questions of expediency to one side, there is an undeniable zest to intersectional hostilities which can only be accounted for by the novelty of the contrast presented by strange names and different methods meeting and clashing with those more familiar...
Hangars are another rarity in the Dominion. Planes are parked out-of-doors. In winter, mechanics build themselves a three-walled shack of lumber or snow, run the nose of the plane in, drape the opening with tarpaulins. An oil stove keeps motors from freezing, the mechanics warm enough to work...
...lean years in fashions are no lean years for Lane Bryant, Inc., No. 1 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, outfitters of the ample. For it is the specialty of the Lane Bryant stores so to drape the stout figure that its outlines may be reduced, restricted, curbed. Many an "outsize" woman has come away from Lane Bryant's with the comfortable feeling that 20 superfluous pounds have been deftly hidden in the subtle folds of the Bryant draperies. And, though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish...