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Springtime for Henry. In the spring, Koerner's work is largely worry. By summertime he has worried into existence a dozen new ideas for pictures, sets out to find landscapes and models that correspond with what he has in mind. He sketches everywhere, with a fountain pen, often returns to make color sketches in gouache. By fall he is ready to start on the year's oils, which he finishes, all more or less together, in January...
Miss Skinner, as her own author, has a talented and adroit pen. Her lines are always penetrating, and often humorous. They spring from a complete knowledge of character. In any series of sketches as ambitious as this, there can be no opportunity to build a dramatic structure of any importance. Miss Skinner completely captivated her audience, but her material, by its nature, seldom allowed her to evoke any true emotional reaction. In all probability this will be true during the rest of the week, when different dramas are presented...
What the Deseret News was shouting about were the "scatological gleanings" about Mormonism in the centennial issue of Pen, the student literary magazine at the University of Utah (TIME, March 13). Like the News, the university was founded by the Mormons; unlike the News, it is now nondenominational and state-supported, though 76% of its students are still Mormons. Among other things, Pen had offended the straitlaced News by printing retrospective reviews of two books...
...reply, the undergraduate Daily Utah Chronicle, ran a page of open letters to the Deseret News. Sample: "If some of these [Pen] writers speak unkindly of the church, could it be [because] in their youth they became sickened with an overdose of such dogmatism as the Deseret News prints with monotonous regularity...
Bible illustrations were the talk of Paris last week. The 270 pen & brush drawings on display in the Galerie Beaux-Arts ranged from Genesis to Revelation. More skilled than inspired, they were the work of Edy Legrand, one of France's slickest book illustrators. Obviously determined to achieve an atmosphere of truth to nature and history, Artist Legrand had turned his back on the usual modern mishmash of beards, flowing sheets and halos, had drawn lean, Semitic men & women and placed them in landscapes as stark as the hills of Judea...