Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably an abler artist than Peggy Bacon is William Henry Dyson of England who hung more of his brilliantly bitten etchings at the Ferargil Galleries last week. Grey-haired, slender and 48. he was born in Ballarat, Australia, still speaks with a rich bush-twang. He emerged from the War a witty cynic with an artistic manner reminiscent of Beerbohm the Exquisite, but with an even surer command of line. Possibly to make the Beerbohm parallel less marked he adopted etching as his medium two years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written...
...settings. Douglas Fairbanks carries it off as nearly in his inimitable manner as he can manage amid the encumbrances of modernity. He swings himself around a good deal on poles and window ledges. His voice, entirely different from his radio tones of two years ago, has the drawling, nasal twang that is the mode among the smart people who are his friends offstage, but that has not quite the ring of naturalness...