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...from early childhood. Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead...
...almost deserted was the underground Lakeside Exhibition Hall, where visitors were invited to prowl through plaster of Paris mines, gaze at blast furnaces and Bessemer converters, store away such bits of useful knowledge as: "It takes five tons of material to make one ton of steel." Touching off a brighter spark of interest was the Hall of Progress. There, not far from a distiller's display, was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's booth, the Ohio State Chiropractic Society's show, a $275,000 exhibit of the good works of the Federal Government...
...great Rainbow Arch of Peace which he hopes some day to give the U. S. public. Last month vandals broke into the abandoned trolley powerhouse in upper Manhattan which is Sculptor Barnard's studio, wantonly destroyed $17,000 worth of finished figures, left unharmed the full-scale plaster model of the Arch. Said Sculptor Barnard: "I must smile and learn to do better...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
Elsie de Wolfe was the first U. S. woman decorator, first to use chintz, first to use fake plaster curtains in the corners of her rooms. With a hard, nimble, worldly mind, no children, a first husband at 70, a matchless acquaintance among the royal, the idle and the rich, she has made a fortune out of selling the U. S. the French version of good taste. From Versailles she still advises her Manhattan staff, now headed by Mrs. Eileen Allen, on every new decorating job, ships French materials and antique mirrors...