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...play-makes-Jack-a-dull-boy principle. Author Louis Paul last week burst from his cell with a yell like a Siberian monk's. A Horse in Arizona was well calculated to startle Author Paul's readers, who had gathered from his first book (The Pumpkin Coach-TIME, April 8, 1935) that Author Paul had almost as much gusto as Phil Stong but almost as much sweetness & light as Lloyd Douglas (Green Light)-that he promised, in short, to be another J. B. Priestley. In A Horse in Arizona the gusto was still there but the sweetness & light...
...entries, except for an able seascape by John Marin. Proudly grey-haired Painter Henry R. MacGinnis had his photograph taken in front of his commonplace Silver Kimono with his model, Jane Erwin, and Governor Hoffman. There were also four sentimental landscapes suitable for calendars, an unbelievably bad poster pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march of art and time. To tell the truth...
...work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg's manners, clothes, public houses, beds, women. A Greene County poet replied in angry verse, drawing from Blythe a counter attack in which his adversary was compared to a pumpkin, Greene County to a "sow grown fat with buttermilk and meal...
...pitchfork, a sturdy young farmer, barefooted and stripped to the waist, clutches a girl in a blue dress who looks both alarmed and fascinated. Another farmer is asleep on his back atop the hay wagon, with his hat over his face. In the pie pan one piece of pumpkin pie is left...
...catcher. Thirty-six thousand clubs, leagues and associations whose chief objective is wild life conservation. . . . And yet, with all this potential voting strength, the wild life conservationists altogether exert less political influence on our governments, both State and national, than the Barrel-Rollers' Union in Pumpkin Center. . . . The problem resolves itself therefore into one of federation of the group interests to bring to bear their voting strength upon the men who are willing to serve when the demand is made impressive by numbers...