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...Whistler Garth, who is really Edward B. Dolbey Jr., was not to be discouraged by critics who next day questioned the artistic value of the human whistle. He had felt really frustrated at the age of 12, when his boyish soprano voice broke and his only musical outlet was whistling. He learned then to produce his tones breathing in or out, to hold a long-sustained legato, trill like a coloratura. After his graduation from Bucknell University (Class of 1928) he began his double life: Five days a week he is Edward B. Dolbey, working in his father...
Marin's name rhymes with barren. He likes to play down his ancestry (French-Dutch-Scotch-English), play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John...
...specialties that for her confirmed admirers the picture should be the most effective of the rapid series of four she has made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When I Grow Up), impersonates Whistler's mother, rides piggyback, does a solo tap-dance on a piano top, learns how to use a finger bowl. Her bridge work, replacing a baby tooth lost last spring, is unnoticeable...
Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...
...timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good prints...