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...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...
...Abyssinia from the blanketing coast of Eritrea, their cheers would not last long after they hit the Danakil. A natural moat, 400 miles long and 150 wide, it roughly parallels the Abyssinian border, sinks to 400 feet below sea level, boasts temperatures as high as 156° in the shade. Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length of the Danakil in eventual safety, though only occasional comfort. In spite...
...Thompson was well worth watching. Where Jeanne Eagels' Sadie had seemed to maintain at least a vestige of hidden personal reserve, Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only to fall prey to her allure, most commentators fell back on the observation that Miss Eagels' Sadie was "mental" where Miss Bankhead's is "physical." But all were agreed...
...mile down a mountain slide-in 58.8 seconds. In the slalom-zig-zag down a course outlined by pennants in the snow -he wasted three seconds going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry S. Woods showed a shade better style. When it looked as if Dartmouth would win its own carnival, one of the four men skiing the third leg of the 12-mi. relay race, last event on the program, cut a corner and got his team disqualified. That gave New Hampshire University, with 511 points...
...could make use of this capacity to the extent of at least 60 or 70%." Prices advanced cheerfully in U. S. stock-markets. Hope was high. Commented Newsman Walter Duranty: "If one wants to estimate the 'horse trade,' I should say M. Litvinoff has got perhaps a shade the worst...