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...itinerant actor, he gained prominence as the illustrator of Author Wallace Irwin's "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in Life. The oriental stamp of his "Hashimura Togo" sketches has reappeared from time to time in burlesque kakemono (Japanese scroll pictures) which he prepares for the New Yorker, of which he is art director. Cartoonist Irvin will continue his series of funny advertisements for Murad ("Be Nonchalant") cigarets...
Presumably Editor Samuels was told to apply what tricks he may have learned while watching, as Publisher Raoul H. Fleichmann's overseer, the clever editors of the New Yorker, to make Smart Sef compete with that weekly, as well as with Conde Nast's lily-gilding Vanity Fair...
First coup credited to Hearst strategy: capture of Peter Arno, most famed main drawing card among New Yorker's artists...
Carl Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Julia Peterkin and Joseph Wood Krutch were the names signed to a letter (reported last week in the New Yorker) from the Literary Guild of America to the wardroom of the U. S. S. Warden. The letter was addressed "Mr. Wardroom Mess." The salutation: "Dear Mr. Mess...
Best shot (from one of Cartoonist Peter Arno's drawings in The New Yorker) : a young lady and gentleman, the latter car rying the rear cushion of an automobile, arriving at a gas station, "to report a stolen...