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...MISS: Montblanc's Sept. 17 auction of signed celebrity portraits???from Susan Sarandon to Sienna Miller?in Los Angeles for the brand's "Signature for Good" campaign. All proceeds will benefit UNICEF...
...interested to see the portraits??of Iranians by Paolo Woods. I am an 11-year-old whose only images of Middle East life have been of people fighting or working at low-paying jobs. I was pleased to see that Iranians do much the same as we do in the West. They have jobs as dentists and teachers, and they engage in leisure activities like swimming. The illustrations were particularly helpful in changing my views...
Critics found in Mrs. McCormick's portraits???with one exception all painted in the impressionistic vein with broad brush strokes, small attention to detail? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive...
...Laszlo de Lombos, seemed to be "an all-around man"; Mrs. Hoover he "like enormously" and praised for being "a wonderful mistress of the White House." Nor were these the only compliments which Painter de Laszlo last week paid Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. He had just hurried to finish their portraits???a three quarter length study of the President, a smaller sketch, done as a surprise for her husband, of Mrs. Hoover?so that he would be able to get them into his loan exhibition of portraits, admission proceeds of which were for the Emergency Unemployment Relief Fund, at Knoedlers Galleries...
...great slate, 18 inches high and over two feet long. The children examined it; it was quite unwritten on. Carefully the medium wrapped it in a cloth. Teddy and Cornelius were made to hold it. Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits??? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand: "Your devoted Theodore" and "In haste, your devoted Theodore...