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James Owen Mahoney Jr., latest winner, was born in Dallas 24 years ago, graduated from Southern Methodist University before going to Yale. Twice he has won prizes for the Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics...
Drys. Most famed of lobbyists are Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance and Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League...
...other Methodist bishops present, who had helped to write the episcopal address which Boston's Bishop William Franklin Anderson was delivering, beamed in their chairs upon the platform. The 800-odd delegates and some 1,500 of their friends who crowded Atlantic City's Municipal Auditorium for the 31st quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church rose to their feet and cheered. It sounded like the old days when temperance cartoons depicted "the brewer's big horses" trampling down poor children, and the Saloon as a burly ogre digging graves for mankind, pointing with pride...
Other items of Methodist activity last week at Atlantic City: ¶ Authorization of a campaign for $1,000,000 between May 15 & 30 to save the missionary, philanthropic and educational services of the church. ¶ A speech by Dr. Halford Edward Luccock of the Yale Divinity School deploring as "brutal and inhuman" the rise of U. S. Steel Corp. stock upon news of a 15% pay cut (see p. 51). Excerpts: "Every day that passes makes it more clear that there is nothing more futile than sending out to the Orient a religion which is not transforming the pagan forces...
...Pianist Frank Black joined the Revelers in 1925, started making the smooth arrange ments which make Revelers sound better than other male quartets. The two new Revelers still look like good-natured college boys: Baritone Phil Dewey, who not long ago was earning $3 a Sunday singing in the Methodist Church choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting...