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Founded by Copperman Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh, the Fellowships continue to afford security for a year of work and creation, but depression has forced the number of winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise...
...Gilbert quickly and smoothly appears. He tells a sentimental story of his? mother's wedding night. Presently he is also fast friends with the butler and with the cook to whom he has told a plaintive story of his mother's lack of a wedding night. Driving the Baroness (Olga Baclanova) he wins her confidence too. He gives the maid, Virginia Bruce, a diamond clasp stolen from the Baroness. He answers the Baroness' charges by saying he got it at an address which happens to be that of her lover. He gets the maid drunk on a party financed...
...devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress Olga Baclanova, began to dwindle. He began to brood, long and darkly. Last June he gave a recital in his studio. Then he began giving away old books, keepsakes, treasured souvenirs...
Through this grotesque panorama weaves a story telling how a beautiful trapeze artist (Olga Baclanova) came to be a freak who resembles a chicken. A midget (Harry Earle, who looks like a cartoon of Herbert Hoover) has a misguided passion for Baclanova. When she learns that he is rich, she tries to poison him. Swift & certain is the revenge of the Freaks, their faces sullen masks as they move silently through the underbrush, but you are not told how they make of Baclanova the legless, drivelling idiot that you see in the end. The featured players. Leila Hyams and Wallace...
...scholar and artist the name Guggenheim rings sweetly. It means security for a year or two of creating, with a little left over for pernods, pulque or Pilsener. Since 1925 there have been awarded 417 Fellowships on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation which Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Hirsh, established in memory of their son who died in 1922. Average stipend is $2,500. Many a Guggenheim Fellow has done well with his year of freedom: Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul...