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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every U. S. citizen under 40 who ever had a middle-class home or a children's library card knows the illustrations of Howard Pyle and N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth. Together they were and are the chief artistic pride of Wilmington, Del., and their abundant families and pupils continue to paint like fury. Last week a young Wyeth and a young Pyle again took first and second honors in the 24th annual triple-exhibition of Delaware Artists, Pupils of Howard Pyle and Members of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, held on the second floor of Wilmington...
...only an illustrator but a writer of children's books, Howard Pyle was followed in both fields by his accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
Thinking he and his wife had waited long enough for a Paris hotel elevator, Rear Admiral Andrew Theodore Long, U. S. N., Retired, opened the shaft door, peered down to see if the car was coming up. Descending instead of ascending it cracked him on the crown, sent him to a hospital with an injured head...
Much of the Friends of Music's artistic excellence, and much of its almost vestal atmosphere, is the work of a dark-haired, dark-eyed pianist who took part in last Sunday's opener-Hortense Monath, 29. In her native Newark, N. J., Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made...
...undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills, N...