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...favorite period- the French 18th Century - and particularly two paintings by François Boucher, who, had he lived two centuries later, would have made a fortune painting dimpled ladies for the covers of sentimental magazines. The Philadelphia Artists' Union hotly demanded that someone fire the Wilstach administrator. Even moderate Philadelphians took alarm...
Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this...
...Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford"; G. W. E. Russell, "Portraits of the Seventies"; Paul Sabatier, "A Frenchman's Thoughts on the War"; George Santayana, "Egotism in German Philosophy"; George Sorel, "Reflections on Violence"; Rabindranath Tagore, "Chitra," "Songs of Kabir" and "The Post Office"; Sidney Whitman, "Things I Remember"; P. Wilstach, "Mount Vernon, Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine"; C. D. Winslow, "With the French Flying Corps...
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