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...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...
...France and Spain. The Mediterranean region has long been a fertile field for the archeologist's shovel. Although many Stone Age relics have been unearthed there, they have been somewhat neglected for findings of the more brilliant Minoan, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman periods. Feeling that prehistoric man was much smarter than is commonly believed, Charles Gates Dawes, banker, musician, ambassador and archeologist, has been taking a holiday in France and Spain to co-ordinate Stone Age findings. With him went Professor George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe and Addison...
Mary Lewis, one of the few comely operatic sopranos, said she had refused to appear in a Paris film production, La Belle Helene, because the management stipulated that she wear a transparent Grecian gown...
When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian...
...Grecian Restoration. In 1687, Turkish Janizaries, conquerors of southeastern Europe, were besieged at Athens by the Venetians. During the battle a great store of powder blew up inside the Parthenon, scattering columns, frieze and architraves. Townsfolk used blocks of Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens. A hundred years ago Lord Elgin stole great masses of the sculpture for the British Museum in London, to save them from "local vandalism." Byron berated him. The Greek Government, belatedly renascent, is now reconstructing the torn Parthenon in the semblance of its periclean perfection...