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...Denmark is determined to protect them from the white man's diseases until they are advanced enough to compete on fairer ground. Only ships chartered by the Danish Government carry food to Greenland. Everything in the island, from the 10,000 sheep to the Eskimo bride in sealskin trousers, is carefully supervised. Greenland's only industrial asset is a cryolite mine, run by Danes. This is some compensation for Danish munificence, but the Government loses about $150,000 a year...
Bald, flute-playing Artist Rockwell Kent last week rushed excitedly into the Weyhe Gallery, his Manhattan dealers, with two rolls of scraped sealskin and a story: he had discovered the greatest of Eskimo artists, he had two examples of his work to prove...
...kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped himself during the winter months. But Artist Twok does not use the primitive picture writing of his people. His drawing is western, modeled painstakingly after the art in U. S. magazines lent him by white settlers. Artist Kent is far from being Twok's first...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...
Spectators jammed the galleries, sat along the edge of the pool with sheets across their legs. Bobbe Arnst, onetime wife of Johnny Weissmuller, now married to a Chicago lawyer named Robert Cavenaugh but still interested in swimmers, arrived the opening night, foiled a bandit who tried to steal her sealskin coat when she was leaving. Signs were hung in the locker rooms to remind members of the Lake Shore Athletic Club what was going on: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits." The meet - annual national A. A. U. indoor swimming championships for women-brought the Chicago Daily News Fresh...