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Last week a somewhat showy light in the East appeared for U. S. artists who would like to do serious illustrations for good books. Foregathered for a grand dinner in the Jade Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited...
...most difficult harmonics. The quality of the tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver or some cheaper metal. Flutes have also been made of bamboo, ivory, jade, porcelain, crystalline glass, rubber, papiermâché, wax and human bones...
...celebrate its sensational success by marriage, improve even further when a Broadway scout (Charles Arnt) offers Skid a contract. In New York, Skid behaves badly. He not only neglects to send Maggie, waiting in Panama, the fare to follow him, but also takes up with a night club jade (Dorothy Lamour), in whose room he drunkenly answers the telephone the night Maggie finally arrives. Maggie divorces him. Skid disintegrates. He wobbles back to the gutter, gets turned down when he tries to reenlist, finally gets one more chance to play his trumpet in an orchestra run by a kind-hearted...
...themselves, are in for a new regime at Peiping with every trapping of intellectual subtlety and elegance. Today Chinese students have less use for either than they had in the days when Wu Pei-fu was mastering scholarship and the composition of fragile poems on expensive paper with a jade-handled ink brush...
...Saint Patrick's Day-and prematurely, at that-salesmen replied that green was the color of safety, that green traffic lights meant go ahead, that green was American Chain Co.'s official hue. In the same spirit, girls who worked for American Chain were given imitation green jade bracelets. So successful was the color idea that the June 1935 issue of Industrial Power complimented American Chain by coming out in a green cover and various employes of Business Week copied the green neckwear of American Chain salesmen. Slogan of American Chain Co.: "In Business for Your Safety." Last...