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Famed for his platform manner, shining-domed James Aloysius Farley took it into a radio skit, rehearsed for a part in a sketch concerning an ambitious lawyer's fight against a political boss. Farley's part: the ambitious lawyer...
Artist Nicolas draws and paints on his colored glass as freely as if he were making a mural. Starting with a small preliminary sketch, Nicolas elaborates it into a large cartoon drawn on paper, complete as a blueprint, with the shape and size of each colored pane and its surrounding line of lead carefully indicated. Artist Nicolas writes a number on each to tell his glazier assistants which of 500 shades of colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns...
...exhibition of undergraduate and graduate art work at the Signet Society is particularly remarkable for its range; and for its excellence as well. It includes oils, water colors, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, sketches for stage sets, and photographs of sculptors' and architects' efforts. It has Gluyas Williams cartoons, and a sketch by Robert Edmond Jones of a set for Richard III, "Now is the winter of our discontent." Its paintings range from primly conservative New England garden-scenes to John Holabird's gay Mexican pot-pourri...
Having slept in many a foxhole with him, I take TIME to task for a flippantly misleading background sketch of a most able man, neither melancholy nor laconic, and in the vernacular of the "Cousin Jacks" (an Army nickname pinned on Searls because of his fund of Welsh miners' stories) I say "Back...
...Here is a new voice, a stimulating voice."-Daily Sketch...