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Thomas Craven, 45, is a red-haired Kansan capable of tornadoes of indignation on the subject of art. When he published Men of Art the entire U. S. art world paid respectful attention to his caustic evaluation of painters from Giotto to Rivera (TIME, April 27, 1931). Last week it had occasion to heed him again when he published his long-awaited sequel Modern Art.* Critic Craven's second book, like his first, is a series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard...
...lively Publisher William Allen White sponsored a show of Curry's Kansas pictures in Wichita. Kansans found "drab" his best-known picture, Baptism in Kansas, which Manhattan's Whitney Museum will send to the Chicago Century of Progress. They found "unnecessary"' his wild Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake. They found uncivic his Tornado, showing Kansans scuttling into a cyclone cellar as a giant cornucopia of wind marches across the darkened prairie. Said Elsie J. Nuzman Allen, art-collecting wife of Kansas' onetime Governor Henry Justin Allen: ". . . Cyclones, gospel trains, the medicine man, the man hunt, are certainly...
...possible reason for these omissions appeared when, as a native Kansan, Vice President Curtis declared himself Dry. Said he: "I am a strong believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican editors tush-tushed the vice-presidential nominee for failing to stand by President Hoover's State option formula. Gleefully exclaimed Democratic Chairman Farley: "It looks as if the Republican ticket had a half-dry head and a dried-out tail...
...Committee passed nine pictures on to the Board of Trustees, who directed Curator Burroughs to buy them. Fame had come to the living, in one case too late. Artist Glenn O. Coleman whose Speakeasy, painted with bright, shallow verve, was bought, died last month. The other young men: Kansan John Steuart Curry, cheerfully indigent, who looks like a citified farmer, has been traveling with Ringling Brothers Circus. Arnold Blanch, whose wife Lucille is as good a painter as he, lives seriously in the Woodstock, N. Y. artist colony. Unmarried Francis Speight teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy. Brusque, satirical Reginald Marsh...
...gavel, said he: "Anticipating that question I have asked the [Legion's] National Judge Advocate [Scott W. Lucas] to advise me whether, in his opinion, the introduction of this subject would be in violation of our constitution. He advises that it is not. I agree. "Personally." added Kansan O'Neil, "I believe that there are many much more important matters which should properly occupy our time.'' After the wrangle which followed, a resolution was adopted 1.008-to-394 which attempted to sound impartial, but which read patently Wet: "Whereas the 18th Amendment of the Constitution...