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...Last Supper are strong evidences that Vermeer studied in Italy. The wine-jug, the girl in the background, and the young man who posed for both the male disciples were all used in well-known later paintings. Characteristic of Vermeer are the stiffly-painted garments and the delicate colors, lemon yellow and pearl grey, setting off the deep blue of Christ's robe. Dutch visitors, who like to look at works of art in absolute silence, complained that the parquet flooring in the room where Christ at Emmaus is hung was noisy. Carpets were immediately provided and religious silence...
Even in the depths of Repeal, canned Sterno and bay rum as thirst quenchers appealed to only a few U. S. citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
...trying to raise other citrus fruits in La Habra, Calif. Onetime miner and realtor, Edwin Hart has always hunted for new things to produce. He started experimenting with avocados in 1905. Eventually tackling citron, he discovered that it could survive California's climate when grafted to the rough lemon. Three years ago he produced some 10,000 lb. of citron, in 1936 and 1937 50,000 lb. Last week he figured his 4,000 trees would bear 250,000 lb. this season...
Many of Artist Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
...will find his work highly ballyhooed. While his old boss. Managing Editor 0. K. Bovard of the Post-Dispatch, was reported submitting Anderson's scoop on the Chicago steel massacre newsreels for Pulitzer Prize consideration, jaunty Crusader Anderson cracked: "Messrs. Pulitzer* and Bovard think of me as a lemon out of which they squeezed all the juice. We'll see about that...