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Last week a woodcut of St. Lydwina on ice, probably the earliest skating print in existence, was a feature of an exhibition of sporting prints and paintings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. If the Museum staff was only vaguely familiar with sporting art, this was not to its credit. Besides the skating woodcut, there were assembled a Rembrandt etching of a tired golfer, another skating scene by Rowlandson, etchings by Goya, five fine bronzes by Degas, a Hogarth cockfight, lithographs by George Wesley Bellows. A large proportion of the other sporting pictures were of horses, hounds and hunting. More...
...extremely interested in your article on Professor Gropius in TIME, Feb. 8. Having been associated with the Bauhaus from its earliest days until the death blow, I still take a lively interest in the doings of its former members. I hope you'll pardon me if this leads me to take the liberty of correcting a mistake in your article: The Baby Accident had no Communistic flavor whatever, and happened in Weimar in 1921, when the trend of the Bauhaus was definitely unpolitical; the parading of the town was done by a few students only, among whom was neither...
Incendiaries were the earliest chemicals used in war. The first flame projector (glowing coals, sulphur and pitch) got into action at Delium in 424 B. c. Thermit, a mixture of iron oxide and powdered aluminum which burns at 3,000° C., was the chief World War incendiary. It was used in conjunction with oil to spread fires which the thermit started. Since there is not much of importance to burn on a battlefield, Author Prentiss believes the chief future use of thermit and other incendiaries will be against cities...
...earliest Hamlet in the collection is the versatile David Garrick, who appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre in the age of Doctor Johnson. Following him at the Drury Lane came John Philip Kemble, who with his methodical, regular, precise interpretation earned a lasting stage reputation...
...prehistoric times, human beings from the once verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted...