Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Manhattan's most persistent exhibition-goer was a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and baggy trousers. Standing before a painting, preferably a high-priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away!" He stopped other gallery-goers to tell them he was the world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead...
Last week Louis Eilshemius was again hailed as "the greatest living master"-this time by somebody else.* In three of Manhattan's swank 57th Street galleries- Kleemann, Boyer, Valentine, he was being given simultaneous one-man shows. Another Eilshemius exhibition was touring the Pacific Coast; a fifth was about to be sent through the Middle West. In seven short years the Mahatma has turned from a crank to a cult. Manhattan's sedate Metropolitan Museum has three of his canvases, and he is represented in virtually every important public and private art collection...
...whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic landscapes, his pictures of Samoa, his moonlit fantasies, his strange nude "nymphs" bathing in improbable streams. These have since sold at high prices, while Eilshemius went in want. Last week his three Manhattan dealers agreed to cut him in on a percentage of future sales...
...troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens...
Divorced. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Earl of Lincoln, 32, son & heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, onetime owner of the traditionally deadly blue Hope diamond (now the property of Washington's Evalyn Walsh McLean); and Jean Banks Gimbernat Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 31, onetime Manhattan socialite; in London...