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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...
...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...
...first to retrench was Walt Disney. He has moved his entire staff to a new studio at Burbank, dropping some 400 people, about a quarter of his payroll, on the way. During the past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...