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...Among them were: Ferenc Molnar (play-wright), Dario Rappaport (Manhattan portraitist), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (play wright), Richard Strauss (composer), Ruth Draper (monologist), Ina Claire (actress), Mr. Walter Rosen, James Speyer (U. S. financiers...
...artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting, with never any weak "teasing up" or dishonest glossing over, he had the disciplined intensity of genius truly great...
...Said a Portraitist Leonebel Jacobs: "Small . . . poised ... sophisticated . . . cosmopolitan . . . elusive." Men were speechless at first, then snared. She saw Koo. Her father saw his father. She married him. He came to Washington as Minister. Her money paid 26 servants, paid for gowns, motors, took the Koos on to the Court of St. James's, bought a private palace in London, furnished a smart apartment few knew about, left Mrs. Koo free to get whatever else she wanted in her own illogical compelling fashion...
...Cathleen, Marchioness of Queensberry, had not heard the warning of Emile Fuchs (see above) that she ought to have at least a baronet* in her family tree to succeed as an artist in the U. S. She is only the daughter of a Scotch commoner, famed Anglo-U. S. Portraitist Harrington Mann...
Another formula, as effective as that of Mr. Kalish, is its opposite -to reproduce in art the shapes or surfaces of things that are totally unfamiliar. This is the formula which supports Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs, portraitist. Mrs. Jacobs has always painted celebrities. She used to paint familiar celebrities; her picture of Mrs. Coolidge hangs in the White House. Recently Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs went to China; last week in Manhattan she exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers...