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Ablest, most vigorous painting in the show was in the North Central States section. Best known was Sleeping by Michigan's John Carroll. The model for this picture was Georgia Finckel, 27, whom Artist Carroll married last week in Columbus, Ohio. He called his frail, slant-eyed second wife the "inspiration" as well as the model for the murals he had just finished at Detroit's Institute of Arts...
Shrewd Knoxvillians guessed that new Publisher Lotspeich was not alone in getting the Journal out of hock. Back of him were supposed to be his fellow members in the potent Tennessee Manufacturers' Association, who wish to insure the continuation of the Journal's strong Republican slant...
Oriental self-sacrifice played to the tune of splitting shells and roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...
...edit The American Home, Mr. Eaton shrewdly selected blonde, energetic young Mrs. Jean Austin, able Doubleday, Doran underling. Mrs. Austin gave The American Home the editorial slant which shot it to success...
...view in Manhattan last week were 31 which included: a lazy peon sound asleep on the back of a patient donkey, his head on a blanket of bright green broccoli; a toothsome slant-eyed dancing girl, pigtails and red skirts whirling; a bug-eyed Mussolini, giving the Fascist salute; a scrawny-necked bass viol player in the wreck of a brown frock coat; an Indian dancer of Oxaca in a tremendous headdress of flowers and shells. Priced at $25 to $250, they sold fast. Seven were gone a week after the show opened. The sedate Metropolitan Museum of Art owns...