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Last week Artist Wood's first big canvas in three years, Parson Weems' Fable, went on display at the Associated American Artists' Galleries in Manhattan. Like the usual Wood, its spongy trees are set in a smoothly stylized landscape. But it is also a deft period piece. Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography. Unauthenticated is his pious anecdote of young George Washington and the cherry tree. Artist Wood has the worthy parson drawing back a cherry-red, cherry-edged curtain to show a tiny, Stuart-faced Washington, complete with...
Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it. Last November he started work on the final canvas, for six weeks worked 16 hours a day to finish it. Priced at around $10,000 (American Gothic sold for $300 in 1930), it is first of a projected Wood series on U. S. legends...
Meanwhile, the 10,000 dealers sat helpless ; helpless sat middle-sized Homer Martin, the spectacled "Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Missouri),* loud-lunged chief of the American Federation of Labor...
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated other phases of the same conversion...