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...mail man. Could it be that Frank is looking for a letter from Mr. Joy? It is well known that Frank takes regular trips to Philly to court one Gloria Joy. Rumor has it that Frank, being a proper, if a bit old fashioned lad, has written Papa Joy for permission to wed Gloria...
...been doing so for some time. If they cannot speak with any great eloquence for themselves, their work speaks for them with widening effect. Large, gregarious Hilaire was born 44 years ago in St. Paul. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, majored in finance at the insistence of Papa (longtime notions seller and theatrical agent), flunked out after two years. Informed by two Philadelphia art schools that he could never learn to draw, he taught himself the piano and the saxophone, thought he would support himself as a Paris art student by jazz playing. But he was forcibly removed...
...When nearly blind James Joyce could not see a drawing Hiler made of the writer's head, Hiler did another in thick charcoal which Joyce could follow with his fingers. Hiler also began to accumulate one of the world's best libraries on costume (he and Papa have produced a Bibliography of Costume compiled from some 8,000 books and periodicals...
...back to his skull. Hiler has also suffered from his name. When a San Francisco guidebook spoke of him in 1939 as Hilaire Hitler, he got so mad he sued the publisher and writers for $100,000. Today he seems in fine inner and outer repair. So does Papa, of whom says Hilaire: "He is to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
...When Papa Herrera died, Luis gave up prosecuting for paint. He says with emotion: "My father made me lose so many years! But my health is very good. The life of the artist in Chile is miserable. Luckily my father left me enough so I don't have to be a poor artist. It is also good that I never had a teacher. I paint as I like...