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Technically the meeting is being held under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House and the Council of Government Concentrators. But P. B. H., which wanted to get the Little Flower for its government service conference Friday and Saturday, is sponsoring the meeting only to help Marvin out, and the expenses are being footed by an anonymous third party...
This speech will follow hard on the heels of a special dinner for Seniors in Eliot House at which time the Little Flower, who returns today from a trip to Oregon, will talk informally for a few minutes. He has not yet announced the topic for either speech...
...Little Flower," or "The Roaring Bull of the Pampas" as he was also known, had no need of a publicity agent. He was the type of "happy thyroid" who always supplied newspapermen with reams of copy. Vag remembered pictures of him beaming at a picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps...
Other Friedman paintings are as sharp and simple, more cheerful. In subject they range from parkways to flower pieces, snowscapes to ball games. Though he once studied art at night school under Robert Henri (George Bellows, Guy Péne du Bois, Rockwell Kent were fellow students), critics persist in calling him a primitive. Arnold Friedman does not mind much. "A primitive," says he, "is one who does not avail himself of the known tricks and is roundly scorned by those who recently have picked up the newest ones...
Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of the century; Ernest Dowson, hashish-smoking, tuberculous poet who died young in the gutter after writing Cynara, a poetic rosary for disillusioned young men; Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations...