Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...
...what on. He decided on canvas because he could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes intersect. Then he loaded...
...TIME will print photographs when, upon the news of a given week, it sheds more light and interest than the factual imagination of TIME'S artist's pen & pencil. 2) Subscriber Rasche suggests unphotographical scenes of the kind which, when of proper significance, TIME's artist will execute...
...Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman George McManus, Authors Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Duer Miller, Will Irwin. In circulation, too, has the American grown. When Editor Crowell first grasped the pencil-scepter, the American claimed a paltry 1,900,000 readers. When his weary fingers relinquished their grip, 350,000 had been added...
Made last summer by the University Film foundation at "Stoneacre," the residence of F. G. Hall '04, in Gloucester, this film depicts the technique of drypoint, as it is done by Mr. Hall. It shows in all detail the method of obtaining a drypoint from the original pencil drawing...