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When Painter Charles W. Hawthorne first came upon Provincetown, Mass., in 1898, it was a fishing town inhabited mostly by Portuguese who had scarcely ever seen a tourist, let alone an artist. Today the quaint town at the top of Cape Cod is a bustling art colony overrun by tourists, and no one doubts that Hawthorne-one of the great art teachers of his time-was above all the man responsible...
...Street that Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bought and turned into a museum. The figures in the canvases-fishermen, selectmen, young sailors, maidens in white dresses-seemed at times as remote as daguerreotypes in a family album, but at their frequent best they proved that Charles Hawthorne is still a Provincetown master...
...affair was "rather a platonic one," says he, for he was already preoccupied with ideas of his own. Over the next 45 years, teaching many thousands of students in Germany, at the University of California in Berkeley, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and in Cape Cod's Provincetown, he worked them...
...quarreled with his editors, darkly accused the typesetters of deliberately mutilating his words. His second marriage, to Adele Morales, a lush Peruvian-Spanish painter and actress, fluctuated from serenity in the morning to raging public brawls at night. Usually an affable man, Mailer became morose and belligerent. In Provincetown last summer he was jailed after a fight with police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that it was a taxi. In Birdland, a Manhattan jazz emporium, two weeks ago there was another brush with the law after an argument over a $7.60 check. "I never...
...brought on by cha-cha-cha lessons which began in West Berlin, starting with a delightful Italian movie doll named Giorgia Moll, continued in Rio de Janeiro with Mrs. Juscelino Kubitschek, First Lady of Brazil, and ended on stage (with Katharine Huntington) in a wharf theater in Provincetown, Mass...