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...publisher's natural for Christmas or any other season, this collection includes all the more favorable things that some 125 writers of prose and verse have had to say about mothers. It is jacketed, as inevitably as baldness, with Whistler's sour old dam. Considering its subject and its editor, The Mothers' Anthology will doubtless become a household classic. Most of its readers will probably be mothers, and they will have every reason to enjoy themselves. For non-mothers, the book has interest too. Representing some of the world's greatest writers and some...
Last January the U. S. Post Office began issuing a series of "Famous Americans" on postage stamps. It ran through authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, inventors-five of each. Last week it was busy with artists. Already on sale were Portraitist Gilbert Stuart (1?), James A. McNeill Whistler (2?). Out last week went Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens (3?) and Daniel Chester French Frederic Remington, famed Indian and cowboy painter (10?), goes on sale next week. The first four artists' stamps were not likely to make stamp users very art-conscious. They were, respectively, a hideous green, a hackneyed...
...When Whistler's Mother appeared on a U. S. stamp for Mother's Day 1934, artists shuddered to see an un-Whistlerian bunch of flowers interpolated in the composition. The Post Office avoided artistic blunders when, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pan-American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style...
...marvelous sense of timing, here throws his hat in the Presidential ring and leaps on the stump, in one motion. He does not indulge much or effectively in the Will Rogers type of political ribbing; instead, he maunders on about a vaudeville seal, a cornet rendition of The Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains some mothy, mechanized, professional gagging, some second-speed samples of the purest, most incapturable Fields comedy...
...friends are in France or the Near East. Evelyn Waugh is a marine, Rex Whistler a guardsman, Noel Coward a man of official importance...