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...mother must have been a little shocked by some of Charles's work. On rainy days when he had to stay indoors, he did acid little illustrations, in thin wiggly lines and soppy watercolor washes, for Zola's Nana, Foe's The Masque of the Red Death and Wedekind's Erdgeist. They were often sexy but never lusty, and Exhibition Director Ritchie, who points out that Charles apparently never meant them to be published, thinks they reflected "a deep unbalance and disquiet in his own nature." Perhaps his watercolors of anemic acrobats in painful poses...
...Lamotte's paintings were as bright and cheerful as summer chintz; others seemed like twilit windows looking out on the rainswept streets, the darkening alleys, the lonely deserted shops that had caught his eye. Next week 36 Lamotte illustrations will appear in a $12.50 Limited Editions volume of Nana; light of hand but heavy with atmosphere, they are enough to give anyone that last-time-I-saw-Paris feeling...
Sail them to 'Nana...
...been going on ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
Before their approving headmen two Paramount Chiefs-Nana Atta Agyeman IV of Sefwi Bekwai and Nana Kwami Nkua II of Sefwi Wiawso-joined hands in ostentatious amity. For the occasion both wore richly colored robes with gold crowns on their heads. Spokesmen for the two tribes invoked the spirits of departed Bekwai and Wiawso chiefs to tell them they were now as one. In turn the living chiefs blessed the new union...