Word: plutocrat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...
Whom, for example, would a very wealthy and impudent plutocrat of Milwaukee ask to paint his features, should he want this done? He would ask Sir William Orpen, Sir John Lavery, Augustus E. John, or Ignacio Zuloaga: these, with a few others of less consequence, from a small group whose prices, higher than those of other portrait painters, average about $10,000.* Had the plutocrat desired last week to have his portrait painted, he would, if alert, have sent a cable to Augustus John for Painter John, after a frantic scurrying departure...
...picture packers, illustrators-everyone who had anything to do with "art"-declared a 24-hour strike to indicate their horror at so grotesque a vandalism. Grandly and sheepishly, Lord Leverhulme offered a public apology. The incident did not improve Painter John's opinion of soap manufacturers; had the plutocrat who addressed a request to him last week been such a one, Augustus John would doubtless have roared as he tore the message into shreds...
Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...
...city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester and puebloed Santa Fe. Recently he has been back again in Manhattan, painting cars and trolleys, houses with lighted doors and windows, loafers, little girls playing in the streets. The paintings which he sold, through the Kraushaar Galleries, to the anonymous plutocrat, include examples of his work in all three periods...