Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...
...like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none...
...very ordinary guy. Like Letter-Writer Sullivan I've cluck-clucked a lot at "crazy quilt," Cubist paintings. Yet, after reading one paragraph of TIME'S Art article, dumb as I am, I began to understand what such painters are driving at. With TIME'S permission, I'd like to "get hot, get arty as Hell," and ram a few of my thoughts down Sullivan's throat...
...indefinitely and I suppose that I can stand it for a second or so longer." Finding such trains of thought too wearisome for a mere ten o'clock on a Holiday Morning, the Vag, too lazy to get worried about his missing left arm, turned over, pulled the warm quilt over his head, and went back to sleep as quickly as possible...
Neither hot, arty nor unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...