Word: westports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend who had not seen John Steuart Curry since he was a potent footballer at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. 15 years ago would hardly recognize him today. Apple-cheeked, fat, bald, he now weighs 187 pounds, lives quietly in Westport, Conn. He is so sensitive about his art that he frequently decides to give it up. But Curry is generally considered the greatest painter of Kansas and of the circus in the U. S. His two most famed works Tornado (see reproduction) and Baptism in Kansas won him important critical accolades in Chicago and Manhattan but only served...
Curry's art is simple and dramatic. Whether he likes it or not no Kansan who has looked at his State or been to a circus can fail to recognize the authenticity of Curry's subjects. Latest Curry is a two-panel mural for the Westport High School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene...
Louis McHenry Howe, President Roosevelt's No. 1 secretary, invited the selectmen of the rambling town of Westport, Mass., to his summer cottage at Horseneck Beach. There Vacationist Howe told them that the President might select Westport for an experiment in repopulating abandoned New England farms with destitute farmers from other parts of the country. The selectmen were interested but not excited. "The idea has its faults and its advantages," observed the chairman tersely...
Died. Montague Marsden Glass, 56, writer, music critic, expert cook; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Westport, Conn. The Jewish cloak & suit men he met in his law practice served as models for his famed characters, Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter...
...famed boss (after he had left the American) in a series for The New Yorker, later expanded and published as W. R. Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Winkler was a star reporter before he was 21. A free-lance for the last ten years, he has withdrawn to artist-haunted Westport, Conn., where he keeps bachelor house, dabbles in gardening, plays good enough tennis to trounce his neighbor. New York Herald Tribune