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...elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition. Last week in Lyme a plume of goldenrod was seen, which would have informed all but an outsider that an Art exhibit was in progress-for each year Art comes to Lyme with the goldenrod. This year, the exhibition satisfied all demands by being up to the standard of those in the past; to have made it noticeably better would have seemed to the natives a bit vulgar; to have made it worse would have been impossible...
...forest of Broceliande. There are other lyricists also who do very well with the same sort of thing-Frank Vincent DuMond, greeneries; William S. Robinson, mountain laurel in bloom; Guy Wiggins, birch saplings, crumbling walls. All this is the sympathetic rendering of local nature that is characteristic of Lyme exhibits. There are also artists who paint cattle, ballet-dancers, ships. Will Howe Foote's Southcote-Bermuda stands out among the many typical paintings for its imaginative execution. Here and there in the exhibit, one can detect a disturbing hint, a fugitive suggestion of modernism, but such instances are rare...
...Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other New Mexican centers, live artist colonies as vigorous as those of Provincetown, Old Lyme, Gloucester or Woodstock, attracted by Indian atmosphere and other exotic themes. Eight of these painters have organized a society called the New Mexico Painters. It includes: F. G. Applegate, J. G. Bakos, Gustave Bauman, Ernest L. Blumenschein, William P. Henderson, Victor Higgins, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Walter Ufer-Blumenschein, Higgins, Ufer are particularly well known as painters of Indian and desert subjects. The purposes of the group are twofold: 1) "To produce beautiful and vital works of art" inspired...
...fiction of the number consists of "The Mayor of Lyme Regis," by S. P. Duffield, and "Mile. Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
Hanford M. Burr of Lyme, Ct., a member of the freshman class at Amherst, has the varioloid. A number of his classmates have been exposed, and there is considerable excitement. Burr rooms at Prof. Richardson's house, which has been quarantined...