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Thoroughgoing readers of either Scribner's magazine or the New York Herald Tribune will immediately give the name of Royal Cortissoz (pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur...
...increasing publicity and support given it by U. S. art critics. But you will not find Royal Cortissoz in the fervid com-pany which swirls in adulation around recent esthetic figures. Post-Impressionism and other modern cults and coteries are not sacred to him. In the March Scribner's, he regretfully says farewell to the magazine, which is hereafter to appear without illustrations and, hence, without Critic Cortissoz. But chiefly he devotes his paragraphs to a discussion of recent developments in the field of art, most significant of which is Manhattan's recently-opened Museum of Modern...
...name. He finds in the late George Bellows, famed for his dramatic depiction of prizefighters, an example of a modern U. S. artist whose art is securely grounded in this respect. In his new book of essays, The Painter's Craft, published a month ago by Scribner's, Critic Cortissoz persuasively explains his emphasis on technique. Says he: ". . . who shall say where the 'manual dexterity' leaves off and the mysterious alchemy of that intensely personal thing, 'touch,' begins? . . . The ponderables and imponderables in this matter are inextricably fused. To grasp the former...
Resigned. Robert ("Droch") Bridges, author (Overheard in Arcady, Bramble Brae), journalist; from the editorship of Scribner's, having been with the magazine 43 years, for 16 as its editor-in-chief...
...first recognition by a Princeton undergraduate body of Wilson's death. Wilson's fellow Whig and classmate in Princeton's most famed class of 1879, Editor Robert Bridges of Scribner's† talked about his friend "Tommy" Wilson, brilliant conversationalist, Whig Speaker, undergraduate leader, "warm, human." Editor Bridges remembered the '79 reunion in the White House (1919), spoke feelingly of his classmate. Said he: "Wilson was not an austere bundle of principles. . . . He was always companionable, and there was no pose...