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Painter Brett dropped her British title when she became a U.S. citizen (1938). She now lives in a one-room adobe studio in art-conscious Taos, dines once a week with her great friend Frieda (von Richthofen) Lawrence, sees much of Taos Art Matriarch Mabel Dodge Luhan and her Pueblo Indian husband, Tony...
Follies oj 1932-44, one of the pariah paintings, showed Franklin Roosevelt, crowned and gaily tossing flat money in a ballet of smirking chorines labeled WPA, OWI, PWA, RFC. Painter of Follies of 1932-44 was Mrs. Mabel Meeker Edsall, art instructor at St. Louis' John Burroughs School. Four more of her paintings were also banned...
...MABEL REEVES NORTON...
...Mack Sennett (here working at Mabel Normand's feet) was as great an originator, in his own way, as Griffith. His comedies, always improvised on the spot, gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...
Producers who might be impressed draw the color line. Most of Mabel's public performances have been before astonished passers-by who line Rockefeller Center's outdoor rink, where she occasionally practices. Negro audiences, however, will soon see her in full feather. Mabel Fairbanks last week signed up to skate and star in a full-length, Harlem-financed movie with an all-Negro cast, Sepia Cinderella...