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...Gordon's Olympia -- "The Lost World", continuous: Some of the cleverest trick photography that has ever been perpetrated, and a picture that is more important scientifically than dramatically...
...Professional. Last week a tournament began on the links of the Olympia Fields Club of Chicago. Excepting James Barnes, Willie MacFarlane and MacDonald Smith, every important U. S. professional was entered. Humdrum preliminary play began. Suddenly came an upset: Gene Sarazen dropped out, 8 up and 7 to go, before Jack Burke of Houston...
...Coop, the print goes under the number E 156. The original painting, which is by Manet, now hangs in the Luxembourg, and is entitled "Olympia." The subject is a nude, couchant, and differs from the Lampoon representation in that it is minus the wine-glass and the horrid leer with which the humorous artist embellished...
According to a statement from the book department, several score copies of "Olympia" were disposed of in three days...
...this conference, President A, Cooke '26, of the Lampoon, showed to the District Attorney a print of "Olympia," the original painting by Manet, the caricature of which aroused so much criticism in the Literary Digest number of the Lampoon. Cooke pointed out that the picture had been only slightly altered by the Lampoon artist. He also explained that the Lampoon maintained a standard of clean humor much higher than that of most contemporary college comics...