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...began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped himself during the winter months. But Artist Twok does not use the primitive picture writing of his people. His drawing is western, modeled painstakingly after the art in U. S. magazines lent him by white settlers. Artist Kent is far from being Twok's first patron. Credit chiefly belongs to a Mrs. Oliver Weaver, wife of a public utilities executive in Nome, who has been circulating and selling original Twoks for several years...
...with a portrait of his half-brother playing with a squirrel, which he had shipped to the London Society of Artists on the advice of his friend, Artist Benjamin West.* This, the first picture of John Singleton Copley to attract international attention, was back in the Metropolitan last week, lent by a heavily anonymous owner...
Summoned by Senator Wheeler last week was RF Chairman Jesse Jones to give his views on the Terminal contract. Mr. Jones, it seemed, had lent MOP $17,000,000 before he had any inkling that the railroad was involved in commitments which were draining off $1,600,000 in much-needed cash annually. Neither to RFC nor to ICC, let alone its own stockholders, had the railroad disclosed the existence of the contracts. Belatedly Mr. Jones laid the facts before the U. S. Attorney General for possible fraud prosecution, but by then action was outlawed by a statute of limitation...
This entertainment consisted of several songs, various games, and piano and banjo playing by several members of the Instrumental Club. The Massachusetts General Hospital lent the Committee a lust pig for a magician's act. Following this, refreshments of ice cream and cake were served...
...works ever held in this country. Over 100 paintings, drawings and prints went on view; there were even a small bronze figure and four photographs taken by Degas. To make the show a success, the Louvre, greatest art museum in the world, magnanimously postponed its own projected Degas show, lent three important canvases. These with the rest of the borrowed works put something on the wall for every type of art lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there...