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Sirs: In the Paramount cinema Laughter, Tycoon Gibson's daughter arrives from Europe on the MAJESTIC. Perhaps there were no convenient sailings of the LEVIATHAN, AMERICA, GEORGE WASHINGTON, REPUBLIC, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT or PRESIDENT HARDING. Following this the hero who can choose his sailing date, plans to take passage Europe-ward on the ROTTERDAM...
Most newsworthy exhibit was a huge canvas that never got into the exhibition proper at all, was hung apologetically in the lobby. It was a picture of four bleary-eyed topers in a club smoking room, entitled "Speaking of Prohibition." It was painted by that famed oldtimer, Charles Dana Gibson...
Academicians need not have been surprised at a controversial picture from Charles Dana Gibson. Now bald and 63, he was the Peter Arno of the 1890's. From his nervous, scratchy pen sprang that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...gentler satirist than Leech or Arno, Artist Gibson seldom made fun of the Gibson Girl herself. Occasionally in the drawings which made Life the most popular humorous weekly in the country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl would exhibit fear of mice, embarrassment at the shortness of her bathing skirt, or a tendency to buy extravagant dresses. But for the most part the Gibson Girl remained the goddess of a sentimental generation, admirable always. It was through the strange minor characters that surrounded her that Artist Gibson was "exceedingly...
...four guzzlers in "Speaking of Prohibition" were exactly in this mood of gentle satire. Actually, Prohibition is a subject on which Artist Gibson feels most strongly (witness Life's altruistic crusade last spring). But these four quaffers were not drunk, just pleasantly "fried." Their faces could be found in any Gibson album of 30 years ago. Observers found a curious old-fashioned touch in the fact that one of them, looking like a younger Mr. Pipp, was apparently imbibing hot scotch with lemon, a British beverage almost unknown to the Prohibition generation...