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...thing most artists have to learn from other people's pictures-perspective. But until he got too old and fat to camp comfortably, Skum found little time to draw. He was in his 60s before the Swedish inspector of nomad schools (which supplies teachers to follow the Lapps) gave him the notion of writing and illustrating a book about Lapp life...
Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...
...Lawrence Lapp-Barbara Benjamin (Newton...
Return Engagement (by Lawrence Riley, produced by W. Horace Schmid-lapp & Joseph M. Gaites) is a comedy about one of those summer theatres where a good rain on the roof renders the actors inaudible beyond the fifth row. The Stockton (Connecticut) Players are giving a triangle play called The Usual Three and, as might be expected, the onstage geometry has its offstage counterpart. The visiting leading lady is the ex-wife of the visiting leading man. She gradually realizes that this ham is still pretty much her meat...
Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...