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...away for a weekend with one of the villains is amazingly casual, nor is this all. Hardly a reel later she accepts with even more alacrity a similar invitation from Bellamy (to whom she is not married) in a scene for which the reporter (Victor Kilian) supplies the fade-out gag. He gives a musical cigaret case to Bellamy with a line to the effect that the possibilities of the trip seem to make the gift appropriate. The tune the gadget plays is "Rockaby, Baby...
Madame Renoir was wife and business manager combined for the old gentleman. Auguste Renoir's passion for the female nude began to fade when he was nearing 70 and practically paralyzed by arthritis, but Mme Renoir knew that Renoir nudes were what the public wanted. The dimpled housemaids that she hired were used as models between meals.* Occasionally the old gentleman's mind would wander; he would fill the corners of his canvases with exciting studies of vegetables, fruit, flowers. These were carefully...
...Sloan comes out "forcibly" against the asparagus fern, whose "color, texture and scale are all bad." White roses, says she, "are never wholly successful. Even the best fade very rapidly, almost before they open." The button chrysanthemum she finds one of the few small flowers which look well on the Lord's table. "Once we used button chrysanthemums in yellow and deep bronze with dark red oak leaves at the base. Very Spanish, when seen at close range; but the colors were massed in such a way that from a distance they looked like two lovely flames...
Ever since collectors began noticing how the oil paintings of James Abbott McNeill Whistler have cracked, faded and fallen to pieces in 30 years there has been an ever-increasing interest among serious painters in the chemistry of their craft. Before the Brothers van Eyck popularized the use of oils in the 15th Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting...
...sometimes to the palms and soles. It becomes more abundant during the subsequent days, but it is seen very rarely on the face and forehead. It is at first composed of pink spots which disappear on pressure, but soon these become purplish, more deeply brownish red, and finally fade into a brown color. ... A symptom of considerable importance, early and rarely missed, is the severe headache which is apt to be more unbearable in this disease than in other acute fevers. . . . When the rash, together with fever and headache, delirium and extreme weakness, is clearly described, typhus is easily recognized...