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Murdock Pemberton, art critic of the New Yorker, has said before witnesses that John Marin is the greatest living U. S. painter. Critic Ralph Flint feels before a Marin picture "as though a Catherine wheel were going off inside me." The New York Evening Post spoke of "his power to make a picture more in tensely real than reality." The Sun said: ". . . The Mozart of water-colorists, and in other times when thunderous and soul- shattering, he has been likened to Beethoven...
...Princeton Dean says that the rioting students acted worse than a mob of Reds. But not as badly, we feel sure, as an American Legion convention. --New Yorker...
...pencil in his mouth, wrote good English before he could talk sense. Famed as a Princeton undergraduate for his versifying facility, like many literary Princetonians he never graduated, left college to write for TIME, of whose staff he is still a member. He also writes for The New Yorker under a thin disguise. Sandy-haired, slow-moving, slangy, like many a worse writer, like few better, he talks newspaper jargon...
...with more sense, has fallen to the lure of publicity and has entered into negotiations with Mr. Vallee, designed to make the University of Toronto known from coast... There is a limit and it comes, we think, when college after college succumbs to the crooning voice of the New Yorker and goes after cheap radio and song sheet publicity, inimical to the interests of culture and education which a university, we have always erroneously thought, is supposed to embrace and cultivate. --McGill Daily...
...Murdock Pemberton, Kansas-born art critic of The New Yorker, woman's club lecturer, is even more definite, lists the four greatest living painters thus: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Derain. All except Matisse, who as a judge cannot show, are exhibiting in Pittsburgh. *Paul Gauguin, morose Post-Impressionist painter of the 1890's, grew disgusted with modern civilization, sold all his European paintings for 9,860 francs ($1,972) deserted his wife and children and went to spend the rest of his life in Tahiti, the "Terrestrial Paradise.'' There, still subject to acute melancholia, he went completely...