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...Pacific Coast's most striking artists got blackballed last fortnight by the streamlined and businesslike Los Angeles County Museum. He promptly raised a willywaw, of the sort that gets pictures talked about. The man who raised the rumpus is Hilaire Hiler, whose great sleek murals of subsea fauna and the oceanic origins of life are a feature of San Francisco's handsome public bathing pavilion in Aquatic Park (TIME...
...Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
Eventually, however, he made it. He played his horn in Paris nightclubs, joined the first jazz band ever to play in Ger. many (their audiences included brass hats in the Army of Occupation at Coblenz). Back in Paris, Hiler was manager, host, musician and barman at the famed Jockey, Left Bank hot spot owned by Jockey Milton Henry's wealthy widow. One night in her cups Proprietress Henry ejected a Negro who proved to be a Senegalese prince and member of the Chamber of Deputies. Next day the Jockey was padlocked. Hiler reopened it, invited every Negro in Paris...
...Costumes. Hiler held his first Paris one-man show of paintings in 1923, his first in the U.S. two years later. . But Parisians knew Hiler best as a bar and nightclub decorator (the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Manitou), as a cafe lounger with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. When nearly blind James Joyce could not see a drawing Hiler made of the writer's head, Hiler did another in thick charcoal which Joyce could follow with his fingers. Hiler also began to accumulate one of the world's best libraries on costume (he and Papa have...
Today psychiatrists all over the U.S. turn down from 6 to 9% of recruits as mentally unsound; they hope to keep out of the armed forces a total of 500,000 potential mental cases. The proportion of psychiatric to physical casualties, said Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles, the Association's president, may be cut from 30% to as low as 15%. But the 2,500 U.S. psychiatrists are not enough to examine an army of 6,000,000 men, especially since the doctors already have their hands full with 600,000 civilian cases. Some of the doctors suggested last week...