Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored bar for Dr. Fenton Taylor of Manhattan. He has painted portraits of Actor Alfred Lunt...
From Dublin to Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries came a famed horse canvas. It is Friends by John F. Herring, in which four Dobbins are shown placidly chomping foliage in the company of pigeons. Reproductions of Friends hang in half a million U. S. homes where horse-appeal means more than esthetics. Artist Herring was a British coachman, painted inn signboards, countless glossy thoroughbreds. Unlike Rosa Bonheur, he was not primarily concerned with equine rhythms, taut muscles. But he waxed sentimental over horses' heads, manes...
Parson Faunce's hobbies are: Chinese students, of whom Brown's campus has a plethora; football, of which he knows nothing, but loyally supports; freshman teas, where gangling first year men stand awkward, watching Mrs. W. H. P. F. pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place...
...Dancing Daughters shows young life cocktailored by Director Harry Beaumont. It is exactly the atmosphere on the screen that F. Scott Fitzgerald's books have when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted...
...Pertzoff '31 lost to Richard Wendower, H. C. Montgomery lost to F. N. Rich '31, K. S. Woodbury lost to Norton Long '31, I. J. Odenwelle lost to E. J. Davis '29, H. B. Cooper lost to John Benson '30, P. A. Roy lost to F. R. Chevalier '29, president of the Harvard Chess Club, C. D. Wlengend lost to W. A. Robinson '31, Robert Montgomery lost to Ordway Southard...