Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personally, said an elegant young London editor last week, "we feel that the greatest possible service to world peace would be the exporting to the Soviet Union of large quantities of American drape shapes, with a stock of the strange ties from Charing Cross Road. Once Russia saw its population trotting about in these ridiculous costumes, its sense of humor would be restored, and the sartorially resplendent nations of East & West would stroll hand in hand into the garmental adventure of the future...
Since the war, although his works have been performed as widely as ever, Allied alien-property custodians have held most of the profits (estimated, in British and U.S. royalties alone, at more than $460,000). Two years ago, pink and erect, Richard Strauss journeyed to London to earn some money conducting (he never had to yield to any man as a Mozart conductor). In London he told inquiring friends: "The last time I conduct." What were his plans? Said Strauss...
...London gallerygoers last week had only to look at 27 of Wilson's latest drawings to see that he was not a complicated intellectual howitzer but something considerably easier to take: a self-taught artist who had a fresh way of seeing things and a gift for getting them down on paper. Scottie's world was a cheerful place where everything fell into intricate designs of delicately colored ink. Strange and luxuriant plants spread across his drawings with the spontaneous elaboration of a Persian carpet; forms, half-vegetable, half-animal, grew out of each other like coral...
...years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed him as "one of the most pronounced artistic personalities in London," found in him "the magic of simplicity...
Last week Scottie was scratching away at his drawings full-time in a cheap rented room in the Kilburn district of London. Despite his vogue with London's intelligentsia, his tastes were still simple, his prices low (?5 to ?15 a picture). Some days he worked over his board as many as 15 hours, turned out pictures in two days. Afternoons at 4, however, he took time off to have tea with his landlady...