Word: rackham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HAUNTED HOUSE?Hilaire Belloc, illustrations by G. K. Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled...
...bought 25 shares. Two automotive young Dodge brothers (John F. and Horace E.) invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn't think the stock would amount to anything and wouldn't advise anybody to invest in it." Horace H. Rackham had $5,000 that he hoped would grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued...
Animals, especially small bead-eyed rodents whose tails must obvious though invisible, are Rackham specialties. He is a man to see that their personalities quite comprehensible, differing from ours only at their extremities where he observes the distinction by bringing their legs and arms out of pantaloons and shirtsleeves with paws and claws instead feet and hands. He makes a muskrat's ear quite as eloquent as unearthly tresses of an undine, rather badly jointed wooden doll is as truly alive to him as the most grizzled of grey old men who have obviously been alive for centuries...
Difficult to discover and pin down as is the full content of his pictures, Arthur Rackham himself still more elusive. His U. S. publishers despair at his abhorrence of publicity. Not since 1909 has his photograph appeared in U.S. public prints. Hardly a soul among his admirers knows that he began life 59 years ago as the son a business-like London gentleman who set him to work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy...
WINNIE-THE-POOH-A. A. Milne -Dutton ($2). Another man A lately made grown-ups furtive Author Alan Alexander Milne of Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (not far from Artist Rackham's beech tree). He used to be (1906-14) an editor of Punch. He fought all through the War and got back safely to tell stories to his son, Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides...