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...Hollywood in 1914, Erich von Stroheim was the symbolic Hun officer whom people at that time would pay to hate. It was rumored that he came of a noble Austrian family. His knowledge of European military technique and court etiquette seemed to bear out his claim that he had graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger. When Hun villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed...
...show and not a fig leaf among them. Though there may be considerable humor in one livid nude with triangular legs sprawling on a studio chair (the fat ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred such nudes leave an impression of acute melancholia. Sprightlier are the political pictures: ruined speculators selling their clothes in Wall Street; Uncle Sam pouring poison into a bottle of whiskey; City Hall Riot, painted on two sheets of wall board by the members of the John Reed Club* which...
Never point a gun at anyone unless you want to kill hun. "Unloaded" guns are always the ones that go off.-U. S. Folklore. In Washington, three weeks ago, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri presented Speaker Nicholas Longworth with a revolver. It had once belonged to Bandit Jesse James and Speaker Longworth amused himself by pointing it at a newspaper photographer who took his picture. In Bay City, Mich., small Nathaniel Conklin saw the picture, showed it to his sister Dorothy, said. "I can do that too. Wait, I'll show you." Nathaniel Conklin then ran upstairs...
...Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton...
...nationalities. From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave...