Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commissioned by TIME to paint the Hoover Cabinet, the first panel of which is published this week (see front cover), Painter Douglas Chandor of London, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D. C. is like Author Chesterton's Noah?everything "on the largest scale;" that is, in the grand manner...
...emerged from art school in 1921. Before the year was out, Queen Mary had visited a London gallery to gaze upon the first oil portrait her eldest son had sat for since childhood. King George called Painter Chandor to him to say it was an excellent likeness. The Prince was so pleased he had Painter Chandor do him again, with arms folded, reflective, in his study at St. James's Palace. Also in 1921, his first year out of art school, Painter Chandor had his portrait of Sir Edward Marshall Hall "on the line" at the Royal Academy...
...murmur swelled: "They are coming!" Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies. The blue-clad Palatine Guards wore helmets topped with lazy plumes. Followed many monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church...
...Weber & Heilbroner shirts "in the Manhattan manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand not noted: Author Coates advertises everything but cigars}. Significance: Ford Madox Ford calls this "not the first but the best Dada novel." Dadaism is extinct. Fathered by Painter Francis Picabia, mothered by Poet Tristan Tzara, Dadaism was born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916, when Poet Tzara, 20, thus christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous Society for the Exploitation of Ideas, Dada...
...back to a wandering Irishman who raised five sons as Methodists. Prosperous for their time (post-Civil War period), they gave their joint surplus of $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...