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Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club, famed hangout of U.S. meatpacking executives, got a notable gift last week. The gift: the 1½ by 3 ft. original sketch of Rosa Bonheur's nobly galumphing Horse Fair. The donor: doggy Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, niece of John D. Rockefeller...
...tall, slim, 26-year-old Captain Charlton, onetime London Daily Sketch-man, Monty gave free rein and backed him up when the War Office was howling for the suppression of the paper, and even Winston Churchill was making known his disapproval...
...artist. For reasons of a dietary nature (one must eat), the former eclipsed the latter--but only superficially. The "fire" still burns within, and with a little pursuasive fanning, one can readily be treated to a wisp of artistic smoke in the form of an original poem, pencil sketch, oil painting, and on occasion, a stage...
...first thing that fascinated her about the ballet was the fierce contrast between the blazing light on the stage and the darkness in the flies and backstage. Often she sketched by a dim green light, sometimes she could not see what she was drawing at all. Between scenes she would dash up to the dressing rooms, sketch away furiously while the ballerinas changed costumes. One of her great disappointments is that she never got into the men's dressing room...
...writing to make the most emphatic protest about the reference to the Daily Sketch in TIME, Dec. 27. The writer ... is either blatantly ignorant of British newspapers or mischievous about the Daily Sketch. The Daily Sketch never was, in any sense, a scandal sheet...