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...compared with ten million other U. S. farmers, they are not plain. While milking the cows, Farmer Smart sings Gregorian chants. Their outdoor privy, built last year by the WPA, is decorated with colored reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec, Laurencin, Chirico. Winters, the Smarts produce plays in Chillicothe's Little Theatre. Farmer Smart believes that the land should be socialized. His farm deficit he makes up by clipping coupons ("much less pleasant than shoveling dung"). But in common with plain farmers he wants to make his farm pay by the sweat of his own brow...
Congratulations to TIME for printing, and to Howard Putzel for telling you (TIME, Dec. 20) the second of what may well become a saga of Toulouse-Lautrec-Putzel Gallery legends, true or apocryphal...
...first: visiting Hollywood in 1935, H. G. Wells was taken by friends to a Putzel show of Lautrec work. Commented the Great Outliner of the famed French artist: "Very interesting ... is he one of your local men?" P. F. W. STONE...
...Putzel seems to have converted other people's misconceptions about Toulouse-Lautrec into a running...
...Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris, was affected by Cezanne, the draftsmanship of Toulouse-Lautrec and later by the color experiments of the cubists. For his own pleasure, not for publication, he did a series of watercolor illustrations, notably six for Zola s Nana, four for Henry James's Turn of the Screw, which Critic Henry McBride of the New York Sun considered...