Word: soglow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade calls them), on Broadway, his Old Gold display is by far the most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long...
...game to help its sale when presented last week at $2.34 by Manhattan's R. H. Macy store, were William Randolph Hearst Jr., publisher of the New York American, and Mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia. Other newspaper celebrities who helped launch Editor Spiro's game included Cartoonist Otto Soglow, Columnists Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Heywood Broun and Stanley Walker, famed onetime city editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...
...mural painting generally has a psychological or sociological cause: "The one clear note in contemporary American painting is a new emphasis upon social and collective expression. Subject and 'human interest' have definitely been reinstated in art." His recognition of that fact leads him to give the satirists like O. Soglow and Hugo Gellert their due as interpreters of the American scene...
Year ago Artist Soglow, 33, bought a farm at Ossining, N. Y., where he spends his spare time playing croquet. Tiny, he has a tiny wife named Ann, a tiny daughter named Tono. Not exclusively a smartchart illustrator, he is a political pink, has contributed many a socially-conscious drawing to the radical New Masses...