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What aroused Columnist Pegler was a rough sketch used for publicity by the San Francisco citizens' committee, which is now out raising $15,000 for materials. "It is," said Old Peg, "a figure with . . . a pointed beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into...
...adored Velasquez. His pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past 40 years it is that his teacher was wrong on that point...
...this thought which must, says Strachey, animate "The New Model" Labor Party of England and the U. S. At present, he confesses, The New Model is mostly in rough pencil sketch. But he is immensely confident in his expectation of shortly going into mass production. For the U. S., all that is now needed is to create a Labor Party, enroll a couple of hundred thousand more Communists to start the Labor Party off on the Left foot...
...carriages. His figures were recognizable, except that, as in most child's drawings, the legs were frail and extended; but he used whatever colors fitted his general composition, getting red or green skies if they seemed right, and slapping on his color boldly without bothering with a preliminary sketch...
...Early Life of Henry Aldrich (Thurs. 8 p.m. NBC-Red). Comedienne Gertrude Lawrence, Ezra Stone in a sketch based on characters of the Broadway high-school farce, What a Life...