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...lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross's work was conventional. It had some of the dashing draughtsmanship, little of the nutty imagination shown in his comic strippery. Five drawings were sold. The buyers: Cinemactors Charles Laughton and Thomas Mitchell, Producer Jed Harris...
...bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...
...task of George Ross Leighton in Five Cities is to restore the old landmarks which civic pride generally conceals. In his book tumbledown factories are landmarks, as well as the homes of the great. His heroes include failures as well as successes, suicides, people who bet on the wrong real estate developments, bankers whose banks have never reopened. He pictures...
Lately Satevepost readers have been following his new serial, Wickford Point. It traces some 30 years in the history of the scatterbrained, snobbish, tumbledown New England Brills, from Great-Aunt Sarah, who had known the Transcendentalists, to sophisticated daughter Bella, beautiful, jaded, unhappy, to whom men were drawn as sightseers were drawn to the shrine of stuffed-shirt Poet John Brill, "the Wickford Sage...
Died. Nina Van Zandt Spies 74, "proxy wife" of August Spies, one of the four radicals hanged for agitating Chicago's fatal Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886 of a heart attack, in her tumbledown Chicago boardinghouse. A beauteous Vassar graduate and social worker she met Spies in jail, married him in absentia by going through a ceremony with Henry Spies, the prisoner's brother...