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...James G. Harbord of the Radio Corp. of America, John T. Underwood (typewriters), onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co.-had bought Inventor Josepho's device outright, also retaining him as technical adviser and vice president of their company, Photomaton Inc. Soon street sheiks, titian cashiers, small-scale honeymooners and spreeing butter-and-eggers will start raining quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people have patronized the first Photomaton studio, on Broadway, including Governor Smith, who played there for an hour...
...that quivers to the slightest vibration of a string, laughs, cries, pleads, cajoles to the mood and art of the musician. These are not things. They are temperaments, identified by their own names for centuries, treasured, loved by the men who have been fortunate to know their richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle Blondine," the cello that was heard in Spain, was bundled off in silks and felts to the U. S. in return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just...
...Renaissance, wondered only whether Greco was mad or astigmatic, a Cretan voluptuary, or a disciple of the art of Byzantium. So much, at least, is certain: he was born in Crete about the year 1547, he went to Italy to study; and there his work was influenced by Titian and Tintoretto. It is said that he lived in a little room in the palace of the Cardinal Farnese. He went to Spain when the Duke of Toledo asked Italian painters to work on his cathedral, and in Toledo, stony and enchanted on its hill above a desert where goats wandered...
...never let it be thought that this column has not sufficient of the aesthetic urge. Only last week was to the Plymouth and did see Gregory Kelley in the "Butter and Egg Man" where there is one beautiful titian tressed milady who doth make a man's heart beat with no uncertain beating and where Robert Middlemas late of the Harvard Dramatic Club, not very late, yet does nobly by his part which is amusing plus a cigar...
Truly, Representative Oldfield has daubed no pretty picture of G. 0. P. corruption and Senator Phipps has outdone Titian in his wealth of beautiful color. Yet 2,500 years ago Aesop said, "On top, looking down, the view is different...