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Under Art in your issues of May 20 and May 27 you have printed nudes by Kroll and Titian respectively. Do you remember when you were a lad in your teens, perhaps attending preparatory or high school? Do you recall the almost unanimous and inevitable verbal and mental reaction on boys by the exhibition of female nudity in such pictures? To 99 boys out of 100 it is not art, but sex. Art is newsworthy and TIME-worthy; sex is not. For the sake of thousands of high school boys who read TIME why not select pictures for your...
Black-uniformed black-helmeted Schutzstaffel (Special Guards) ringed Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week while a battalion of grey Reichswehr troops stood as a guard of honor before the door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal...
...Kroll's hobby," explain his friends, "is pretty women." When he is not painting them, he likes to show them his one brown eye, one blue, make conversation by asking which they prefer. His cinema heroines are Mae West and Jean Harlow. Flippant and temperamental. Artist Kroll works hard at his painting and his beautiful young French wife sometimes takes her knitting to the studio while he paints. With her and his bilingual daughter he speaks French...
Born in Manhattan of impoverished musical parents. Artist Kroll used to haunt the old red brick & granite Metropolitan museum as a child. Not until he was about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter...
Since then Kroll landscapes, Kroll portraits and Kroll nudes have won him many prizes, jobs as lecturer and instructor, a comfortable living, a beautiful wife, and a commission to paint murals in the Attorney General's room in the new Department of Justice building at Washington...