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This was our first really close look at the dancers. Only one of the men looked frail and particularly feminine, the others were slight but athletic. Their faces were chiselled. I thought of the sketch of Kirkegaard by Manet with its Nordic impishness. The women were lovely, budding, blossoming and fading with each costume change. Against the gossamer of the skirts were beautifully developed supple legs...
Your candid and informative Aug. 20 sketch of Duke Ellington is heartening to many talented and aspiring Americans...
...terrible cleanings, little of all this remains . . . Falling upon their victim, [the scientific restorers] commence work on one corner, and soon proclaim a 'miracle'; for, behold, brilliant colors begin to appear. Unfortunately what they have found are nothing but the preparative tones, sometimes even of the first sketch [made] in preparation for the execution of the finished work. But the cleaners know nothing of this, perceive nothing, and continue to clean until the picture [is] mortally wounded...
Died. John Augustin McNulty, 60, old-time newsman, bar correspondent and gentle troubadour of cabbies, rummies and $2 bettors in Manhattan (Third Avenue, New York) and other places where elbows are bent (A Man Gets Around), veteran sketch writer for The New Yorker; of a heart attack; in Wakefield...
...Half of It. The reader who suspects that all this has been told before will be right. Two years ago Honor Tracy, then a 38-year-old journalist on assignment for the Sunday Times of London, made a pointed little pen sketch of the village of Doneraile in County Cork and its 82-year-old priest, Canon Maurice O'Connell, who was then raising funds to build himself a new house. Miss Tracy's story was too pointed for the old canon, who sued the newspaper, which settled out of court with an apology. Journalist Tracy (who, like...