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...Significance. Frank Swinnerton is chiefly known as a technician. The story of Felix's childhood and youth is told with an adroit simplicity that gives a minute picture without the semblance of effort. Every episode comes with the force and inevitability of life itself. He is never melodramatic, never sordid. He is consistently interesting. He has the invaluable faculty of exploiting the significance of the casual. He does not feel it necessary to take his characters apart in order to show how they work. Unquestionably they all have complexes and repressions and psychological eccentricities. But Mr. Swinnerton...
Similarly Mr. Swinnerton, while showing no cowardice in the face of the demon, Sex, keeps a healthy sense of proportion in regard...
...James Swinnerton is known to readers of Mr. Hearst's papers as the cartoonist who draws the comic strips that deal with the adventures of "Little Jimmy...
...Swinnerton's ambition has taken him into art as a sideline and he has recently exhibited a painting in the spring exhibition of the Salons of America. This painting is called His Last Trail. It represented a lone Indian, unidealized and with a wealth of realistic atmosphere, who has come to the end of his wanderings. Peculiar reddish tints predominate in the painting, which represents the result of a recent trip to Arizona by the Hearst cartoonist...
...During his college career he served as assistant business manager of the Freshman Red Book and as an editor of the Lampoon, and also played on the second football team. For a year he was secretary of his class. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Swinnerton Parker...