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Sirs: TIME of Aug. 29, in its admirable sketch of William Gibbs McAdoo falls into a natural error when it says: "McAdoo helped nominate Wilson at Baltimore in 1912. He managed that year's winning Democratic campaign." McAdoo did this-but not William Gibbs, who had not yet attached his star or his heart to the Wilson regime. Wilson's pre-convention and campaign manager was William McAdoo, a Princeton graduate, resident of New Jersey and New York lawyer, quite a different person. I suggest that the young editor who wrote this sketch read up his political history...
...notable, Audubon often made his birds unrealistically spectacular. Critics perceive that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish. Not a romantic naturalist, he has always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The episode of the pair of golden eagles chasing...
...maniac, no art critic, was the Milwaukee thief who last week stole six paintings from the watchmanless Milwaukee Art Institute. He took Roy Brown's October, Trepied France, Cullen Yates's In the Delaware Valley, Peter Rotier's Deep Pond and September, Agnes Leindorffs The Sketch Class and a marine by William Ritchell. A fortnight ago someone stole the Institute's Study of a Nude by the late William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. The Institute's secretary said that though it could not afford a night watchman, no one had ever taken anything before...
Scrap Book contains a burlesque of East Lynne, a scene from King John, bits from Pagliacci and Carmen, a radio sketch, a musicomedy sketch, a torch singer, several other singers, three masters of ceremonies (one male, one female, one indeterminate), a Florodora act, etc., etc. Best act by far is a burlesque sketch in which Mae Dix, onetime Minsky burlesque girl, becomes drunk, disrobes, does strange things with her famed indiarubberlike stomach. Dorothy MacDonald also disrobes, more teasingly. At the beginning of the burlesque sketch, members of the claque run up & down the aisles selling "Feelthy pictures, feelthy pictures, Martha...
When British publishers spoke of "The Great Eight" they meant the Graphic, Illustrated London News, Sphere, Sketch, Tatler, Bystander, Britannia & Eve, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News-all published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Last week the eight were reduced to-seven. Instead of their weekly copies of the Graphic, U. S. subscribers received instead notice that the famed 62-year-old paper was no more...