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...White House musicales," Mrs. Roosevelt is partial to Americans, likes programs that interlard well-known artists with entertainers like Whistler Robert MacGimsey, Character Sketcher Mollie A. Best, Singing Satirist Vandy Cape. Encores are given only if Mrs. Roosevelt signals. Artists are asked not to brag much in the press about their White House dates...
...lightest element in Crime and the Man are the 24 charts which Dr. Hooton himself drew to illustrate his text. An amateur sketcher with a humorous line that many a cartoonist might envy, he calls his illustrations "nasty little human figures" (see opposite page...
...observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher: ''Why can't we produce decent entertainment ourselves?" The answer was a series of children's programs (music, marionets, etc.) given by Manhattan professionals. Admission: 10?. So enthusiastic was the reception that the next year Junior Programs, with Mrs. McFadden as executive director, began to send professional...
...Philadelphia's School of Industrial Art, who in winter teaches art at Germantown High School, does odd jobs for newspapers. His biggest tip ($2) came from his biggest customer, Primo Camera. Jack Dempsey, Jackie Coogan, Max Baer each gave him $1, Al Jolson 50?. Once he sketched Sketcher James Montgomery Flagg who thereupon jumped off the boardwalk, sketched Sketcher Faier. But when Flagg finished for Faier a picture of a mother & moppet, the mother declared it a bad likeness, angrily tossed Flagg...
What makes the volume really notable is the work of Doris Spiegel, a very fine sketcher who fits her clear, accurate illustrations admirably to the content. It is fun to glance through "Paris to the Life" again and again and study the excellent draughtsmanship and remarkable vivacity of Miss Spiegel's drawings...