Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Jesse Holman Jones, Ambassador von Prittwitz of Germany, John Philip Sousa, President Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, President Sloan of General Motors, President Coolidge of the U. S. A. and many another personage attended the spring dinner and prank-night of the Gridiron Club (Washington news-gatherers). Politics past, present and future were "horsed" as usual. President Coolidge stayed to the end and made a speech which, under the Gridiron Club's huddle system, might not be repeated or reported...
First let us serve the nectar, and then to take the good taste away let us all have a good swig of Sloan's Liniment. For such is the method of attack, when dealing with a piece such as "The Madcap". The nectar is in the summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality...
...mouthful of Sloan's Liniment. The rest of the piece is pretty weak. It is billed as "a comedy with music" which is exactly what it is. The comedy is good; the rest is mediocre. The music is fair, the sets likewise, and the rest of the cast passable. The chorus, while executing a few good dances, is such as would most probably offend even the taste in pulchritude of the fastidious patrons of the Howard Athenaeum...
...Artist Sloan's first notable paintings were those which he made of Manhattan or Philadelphia streets and houses, engrossing not alone because they are energetic paintings full of motion and the suggestion of sound, but also because the scenes which they depict are now vanished. In these paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester...
...would have been hard to find a more representative radical among modern U. S. artists than John Sloan. In 1907, before the advent of cubism and futurism, he was listed among the "original 8,"* revolutionist painters who were contrasted with the conservatives' "original 10." In 1918, he was elected president of the Independent Artists, to succeed William J. Glackens, and has since modestly declared that he is still president only because he has been "unable...