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...show in seven years for Max Kuehne. Artist Kuehne's canvases hang in many museums. Year after year his etchings and lithographs have been listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert C. Barnes, inventor of Argyrol. His pictures are generally as admired by the art world as they are unknown to the U. S. public. Yet the most important fact about...
...chin," and who made a name for himself merely by asking "the most unusual questions" at stodgy public discussions. Maurois briefly recounts the major events of Shaw's career, does not point out the significance of his victories over one after another of his rivals. When William Archer agreed to collaborate with him on a play, Shaw wrote the dialog, then dispensed with Archer's part. When Wells, accusing the Fabian Society of aping Shaw and failing in its duties, offered a program for changing it. Shaw delivered a speech so vigorous that Wells "was left stricken...
However, they have succeeded in collecting an arsenal consisting of a .33 target pistol, three regulation Springfield Army rifles, and a sixty-pound bow with an archer of no mean ability to go with it, and they are confident that "he who laughs last laughs best...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Young,* 52, famed archer; after an appendectomy; at Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
...young man with lots of self-confidence sat down in the reading room of the British Museum to write his first play. He called it Widowers' Houses. George Bernard Shaw had already met with indifferent success as an orator, fictionist and Fabian Society member when Dramacritic William Archer presented him with a skeleton plot and persuaded him to turn his talents toward the theatre. It was not long before Shaw was back with the news that he needed more plot, having used up all Archer had given him before he was halfway through the first...