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Persisting in its efforts to trace the origins of modern French painting, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week called in the assistance of the American Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology. Between them they presented potent evidence in an exhibit of reproductions of 17th Century Persian frescoes which one Sarkis Katchadourian has spent two years laboriously copying in gouache on paper, reproductions which mimic exactly the patches of new plaster, the splatter of the original frescoer's brush. As in Paris, where the reproductions were first exhibited, critics were amused to note that painters apparently copied Marie...
...written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie [Bertrand Russell] : very miserable. He doesn't know...
...Friends and critics have told him for years he should have been a writing man. Now he is confident he has justified their and his belief that he could do a big novel in a big way. His story barges indomitably on & on through 330 pages with never a trace of weariness on Author Revere's part. (He, too, lived a double life-with his book-while writing and rewriting it secretly at his New Jersey home, in spare moments over four years, giving up to his muse even golf at his beloved Baltusrol.) So heavily firm...
...formulate a "Japanese Monroe Doctrine.'' claiming the right to protect all Asia "from Suez to Kamchatka," except American & European possessions, from Western aggression, and that the originator to be cited for this idea was none other than the late great Theodore Roosevelt. Editors were unable to find any trace of such a doctrine in T. R.'s writings or biographies...
...state of nerves, full of wild talk about a mystery man with a red beard and black goggles who is out to get them all. Gernicot is shot, Gribbe stabbed, Tignol abducted. Meanwhile the police have not been idle, have detailed Wenceslas Vorobeitchik, nicknamed Wens, to trace the murders. Spick & span Monsieur Wens, whose progress in the case is registered by the way he wears his trousers, creased or draped, adds to the horror by identifying the murderer as one of the already murdered...