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...young men, none more than three years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach as a stopgap. Except for minor alterations...
...woke him up and said "Knock, knock." "I am too old for that sort of by-play," Mr. Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants just because they become me." But Author Mitchell hits the authentic Lardner note most strongly in The Pickle Works, a brilliant sketch of Jimmy Durante. nursing a hangover and memories of his youth at a rehearsal, talking himself from gloom to good humor until he launches on a flight of Broadway poetry: "The stage may be the pickle works to some people, but it's a big box of candy...
What exotic Cecil Beaton, the London and New York society photographer, was nonetheless expected to explain last week was this microscopic lettering discovered by Columnist Walter Winchell in a small corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly...
...story revolves around Frank O'Rielly, who stumbles on a silver mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators into which his wealth lifts...
PROMETHEUS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS-John Lehmann-Knopf ($3.75) Impressionistic travel book on semitropical Russian Georgia, with emphasis on its writers, painters, the Marjhanishvili Theatre, together with random flashbacks of Georgia's turbulent history, a biographical sketch of its most famous native son, Stalin...