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Among the gay first-rowers at last night's performance was Miss Ann Marsters, becomingly clad in black chiffon with a black velvet bow in her hair. She wore a corsage of red roses...
Gropper. At bald, velvet-eyed Herman Baron's A.C.A. Gallery last week the best sharpshooter of all U. S. cartoonists had his third show of notable paintings. William Gropper is a short, thick man with dreamy grey eyes and an air of subdued but uninhibited amusement. He paints as he draws for the New Masses, from memory or imagination, as fast as he can and as briefly, with rich reds, yellows and slashing whites. Last summer he spent three months in the West, exhibited the results last week. Among them: Waiting (see cut), a Kansas cow, dying of thirst...
Many an Anglican approved. Kenneth Ashcroft, a rural dean near London, exclaimed: "People who put a halfpenny in the collection plate . . . should be slung out of the church." His church, he added, had raised collections 20% by substituting open plates for the velvet alms bags generally used in England...
Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground...
...When the velvet Poetess Elinor Wylie proposed this alternative to the ivory tower, she was not thinking of the millions who scuttle like rats and whiz like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...