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...booklet: Jack & Jaques (Ryerson Press...
Harriet (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Gilbert Miller) brings history and Helen Hayes (Caesar and Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria Regina) together again. The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96), from her marriage at 25 till the middle of the Civil War, Harriet is anything but a militant play, is only by fits & starts a serious one. It is more concerned with crinolines than crusaders. Perhaps it had to be. For while Harriet Beecher Stowe was lifted to the heights with Uncle Tom's Cabin, during most of her life she was bogged down in family...
Born in Powhatan County, Va. of an old Southern family, tall, good-looking Julien Binford was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship ($2,500) in 1932, spent three years studying in Paris. Returning to the U.S. with a charming French wife, Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in Virginia, started farming, painting the local Negroes. He also succeeded in arousing the local white population. Commissioned last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing...
Their crusade was sincere and dignified, their membership select. Into it came men like Lessing Rosenwald (son of Sears, Roebuck's famed president, Julius), intimate with Wood and associated with him at Sears; wealthy, influential, socially prominent Edward Ryerson Jr. (steel); wealthy, bluff Sterling Morton (salt). Eager to speak for its cause was such an impeccably American woman as Kathleen Norris, eminently successful writer of he-she stories for women's magazines, a sincere and emotional pacifist who hates war. For the most part, members confined themselves chiefly to writing to the President, until last January when...
...Redon purchaser who got in on the ground floor was Chicago's famed steelman and art-lover Martin A. Ryerson, who bought the first impressions of all Redon's 323 lithographs from Redon's widow in 1919 for the Art Institute of Chicago. The Institute now claims to have more Redons than any other museum in the world. Last week gallery-goers went to the Institute to see an exhibition of 19 more Redon charcoal drawings...