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Director Alsberg, onetime newsman and Provincetown Theater director, soon had a Writers' Project in every city of 10,000, at least one writer or field worker in each of the U.S.'s 3,000 counties. He defended himself and his Project against charges of boondoggling and radicalism until 1939 when he retired to make way for John Dimmock Newsom, under whom most of the State Guides appeared...
...probably the No. 1 U.S. art subject. It has been watercolored, oiled, gouached, penciled, etched, lithographed, photographed. Last month, by a publisher's inadvertence, Motif No. 1 turned up on the jacket of Mary Heaton Vorse's Time and the Town (TIME, July 20), a chronicle of Provincetown, Rockport's rival art colony. Rockport was outraged...
Aldro T. Hibbard, president of Rockport's Art Association, wired the Dial Press: "I was shocked to the camel-haired bristles of my paintbrush. . . . We of Rockport colony have always looked upon Provincetown as a weak sister in the field of art and this theft of our most sacred subject is a confession that the little village is minus a house suitable to be reproduced in the book by Mrs. Vorse...
Wired the Dial Press: "Is there anything we can do?" In a public apology the Press said: "The company hopes it hasn't offended the good people of Rockport . . . also hopes it hasn't offended the good people of Provincetown." Then the publishers commissioned Motif-Owner Buckley to paint a Provincetown scene for the jacket of its third edition of Time and the Town. Sniggering Provincetowners wondered whether he would have a studio to finish it in. Reason: battered by decades of New England wind & weather, Motif No. 1 was reported last week to be collapsing. With...
...widowed, peripatetic insurance salesman, she once played a rippling brook in a grade-school pageant, a few roles in high-school plays. Then, unable to type fast enough to pass her stenographer's tests, she put in two solid summers with the Wharf Theater players in Provincetown, Mass., thence sailed right on to Broadway...