Word: pencilers
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...black. With these nudes he has been stubbornly experimenting in late years. They gave conservative Critic Royal Cortissoz "a positively painful sensation," but for Critic McBride they proved that "John Sloan has kept his youth." Doyle. In the eminently respectable Newton Galleries was exhibited a series or black & white pencil drawings and colored caricatures, signed for the most part H. B. To knowing London Victorians H. B. stood for John Doyle, an artist that modern critics have learned to classify with his more famed contemporaries, George Cruikshank and John Leech. His son Richard became the famed Punch illustrator. Every week...
...different owners for a total of $57,565. Unnoticed by most in the room was a plump little man who kept nervously wiping his forehead and gazing first at Auctioneer Otto Bernet, then at Mrs. Hubbard as she bid $100 at a crack with the raise of a pencil. It was Escort Edwin Krenn. "All this is breaking my heart," declared this beneficiary under the McCormick will, with a wave of his hand. "It cuts into me, you know, it cuts into...
...however, the book makes excellent fire-side reading. Most of the narratives are well chosen, and in many cases they have the ring of truth. In selecting them, Yeats-Brown has wisely avoided the glossy newness of the recent past, and, by temperate use of the editorial pencil, has preserved that quaintness of style which lends glamour to the adventurers of another...
...Take a Chance. In her serious characterization of Janie Barlow as an inspired, warm-hearted runaway angel, Joan Crawford makes thoroughly apparent the fact that she is now abler as an actress than as a dancer. Good shots: Robert Benchley as a Broadway colyumist, languidly asking for a pencil; the start of Dancing Lady's flashiest musical number, with Fred Astaire going through routines which Joan Crawford tries to follow...
...Central Islip, L. I.'s hospital for the insane a doctor extracted from the stomach of a woman inmate 48 teaspoons, two bolts & nuts, a large screw, a needle, a pencil, a piece of glass, said that the 48 teaspoons had been stacked neatly in her stomach...