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...ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 bronze and stone statues and busts, almost all of them life size, depicting to the best of modern belief all the races of mankind. The collection, begun in 1930, was finally completed in February 1935. Last week the sculptor, capable, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York and Paris, included the story of that commission in a thick volume of-rich reminiscences...
...travel from ball to ball by free bus. Among the travelers were Guy Lombardo & orchestra, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers (who, though no member of the Cuff-Links Gang, dropped in at the White House) and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Accompanied by a troupe of handmaidens including Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, Malvina Thompson Scheider and Marguerite ("Missy'') Le Hand, and wearing a necklace of tiger's claws, the President's wife went successively from the Raleigh to the Willard, to the Washington, to the Mayflower, to the Wardman Park, to the Shoreham Hotel where she cut a great...
...completion of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 life-size statues and busts in bronze, depicting, to the best of present anthropological belief, all the races of mankind. They were the work of able, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Aided by her husband, and by a series of bequests from rich Chicagoans, Sculptress Hoffman had spent six years on her job, circumnavigated the globe, coaxed Igorot headhunters out of trees with strings of beads, done West African types...
...National Industrial Recovery Board's Samuel Clay Williams, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Leo T. Crowley, National Labor Relations Board's Francis Biddle, National Emergency Council's Donald Richberg, Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Joseph H. Choate Jr. Tail-enders in precedence were Mrs. Malvina Thompson Schneider, Mrs. James M. Helm and Miss Marguerite Le Hand, private secretaries to Mrs. Roosevelt and the President...
...Chicago, the Art Institute was showing Degas and Manet prints. Pittsburgh was sending its big Carnegie International exhibition to Baltimore. San Franciscans were peering thoughtfully at Sculptress Malvina Hoffman's Races of Man. Los Angeles was holding its second annual California Modernists Exhibition. In Northampton, Mass., Smith College girls were giggling before Man Ray's Surrealist photographs...