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...whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan for naval construction and put it into a fantastic marble pleasure boat that grounded in her lily pond. She sent the fanatic Boxers (Righteous Harmony Fists) against the Christian missionaries, stopped the massacres to make a sketch in the Forbidden City, again to send fresh fruit to the besieged foreigners...
...famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault, Vlaminck, Friesz), became one of Matisse's most brilliant disciples. Now he lives in a Montmartre apartment painted the same blue he often uses in his skies. Quiet, looking more like a businessman than a painter, he works strenuously, carries a sketch book everywhere, rarely frequents the cafes or studios of fellow artists...
...English monologuist, will give a performance Wednesday evening, March 21, at 8.15 o'clock, in Paine Hall of the Music Building for the benefit of the Cambridge chapter of the MacDowell Colony League. The program will include satires on English and American types such as "An English Train Sketch," and "An American Shop Girl...
...Clinical Sketch...
...money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen of the oleographic school of portraiture, The First Billion, in spite of its crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh...