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...tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their old friends had always bored...
...puzzled baby watching her bald father play the guitar, are blameless bits of conservative painting. The mere fact, 30 years ago, that these men were attempting to paint the life around them, instead of duchesses in pearls, goddesses in Greek draperies, or New England valleys in a pink mist was enough to deny them admission to most galleries and for the critics of the day to label them the "Ash-can School," the ''Black Gang" and "Apostles of Ugliness...
...concentrating on the orchestra and singing groups, for which there is talent galore, and by demanding reasonable proficiency and attendance at rehearsals, the Clubs would not have to stretch to put on a concert this spring as well as a tour of the East next Christmastide, especially since the mist of depression no longer hangs heavy over many interested graduates and sponsors...
...could doubt the Geological Sur vey cr Painter Thomas Moran. When he came back from the Yellowstone with a tremendous canvas of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone seen through a romantic mist. Congress voted $10,000 to buy it and hung the canvas in the Senate Lobby, where it is today. In 1872 Yellowstone Valley became the first National Park, and Thomas Moran acquired the nickname that stuck to him for the rest of his life: Thomas ("Yellowstone") Moran...
...cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing in the burnt grass...