Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven artists constituted the audience of a remarkable concert at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia. Two pianists played selections unknown to the artists, who promptly set down their impressions in pastels. Ten minutes was allowed for the sketch, the piece played again, and five minutes allowed for corrections. From Salome all seven were inspired to use warm colors. The finale trio from Rosenkavalier was futuristically interpreted in splotches of bold color...
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE-Michael Arlen-Doran ($2.50). A whimsical satire of ultra-fashionable British "society," to be put on the shelf along with Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson. For instance, there is one sketch, about a gentleman who had been "a millionaire until the War broke out, when he at once became a multimillionaire. He was offered a knighthood for his services on the field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple...
...more ambitious features, which I have mentioned in what is necessarily a rapid review. There are many other pleasant and witty titbits." "A Sad Case" of Mr. K. O. Rockcracker, who was dismissed from the chair of Biblical Geology in Jehovah University, is a delightful little ironic sketch. "The Week" and "Paternalism" and the "Theory of Democracy" are so like serious New Republic editorials that it robs them of the zest and humor which make the rest of the number so attractive. And yet in their way they are the best parodies...
...interesting feature of the exhibition is an original pen and ink sketch of Voltaire, made at Ferney about 1767 by the Swiss printer Huber. There are also two views of Ferney whcih were formerly the personal property of Wagniere, Voltaire's private secretary...
...Planks" of necessity they are, but they fit directly into a scaffolding. And the scaffolding itself suggests a finer structure of which it has only been possible to sketch the elevation. If any nails are to be driven home to ensure the stability of even one upright, the only student body capable of driving them is the representative council. If, as has been so far promised by vague rumorings, it shakes off its former lethargy, it can wield to effect the hammer it has long unconsciously held...