Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Eddie Collins, 56, sad-eyed, fluttery-faced, burlesque-to-cinema comedian who served as inspiration for Walt Disney's celebrated "Dopey" (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}] of heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif...
...view ten paintings, 20 drawings commissioned by the Book-of-the-Month Club for a $5 edition of Leaves of Grass. The illustrations were made by Lewis C. Daniel, 38, a tall, rangy, black-haired artist and teacher at Cooper Union who looks something like the men Walt Whitman apostrophized...
Artist Daniel warmed up on Walt by making 14 etchings for Song of the Open Road, lettering the text on copperplates for a limited edition which sold for $150 a copy. His Leaves of Grass illustrations he painted in oil, and drew with a greasy lithographer's crayon, on paper. Full of movement, their swirling designs bursting with life, Daniel's drawings would probably have pleased Walt Whitman. The bearded poet appeared in some of the pictures, striding along, flying through the air, loafing and inviting his soul. Salut au Monde! (see cut) showed him crying...
...willing to let a picture go for the price of a good fishing rod), who last year got an average of $51 a picture but this year is getting up to $350 because somehow his pictures sell. But the larger part of the colony consists of such artists as Walt Killam, Kenneth Bates, Beatrice Cuming and lighthouse-keeper Frank Jo. Raymond, whose best work ranges from $100 to $750. For the mass-market it had water colors, brush drawings, pastels, oils and sculpture from...
...songs, the people who hum, whistle and sing them, the musicians who play them, last week made music that swelled and surged in a crescendo of patriotic feeling. As the sounds from millions of radios, home phonographs, jukeboxes soared over the seaboards, plains, mountains of the U. S., Walt Whitman might again have said, "I hear America singing." The U. S. was singing, as it had not done in years, of pride in its past, of hope in its future...