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Cinema is primarily an industry, secondarily an art. Squat, tasteful red brick buildings in the heart of Hollywood are the physical evidences of Chaplin's supremacy as industrialist as well as artist. Chaplin finances his own pictures and shrewdly supervises their sale and distribution. He writes them, casts them, directs them. He works by mood. He shoots thousands upon thousands of feet of film, saving perhaps 50 feet that he feels is right. When things go wrong he stops work and plays tennis. Sometimes he works all night. He listens to a great lot of advice, disregards most...
...last month wrote the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports to the Governing Body of Eton College. Signers of the epistle included three Bishops, many an artist and novelist, Theosophist Annie Besant, Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Secretary for Home Affairs John Robert Clynes, Baron Passfield, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. Eton's Governing Body made no haste to send an answer...
...Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause, she was nervous, tense. In public...
...Chester Dale, Maud to the world of art, is the small, tawny-haired, vivacious daughter of Artist Frank Murray, onetime dramatic editor of the New York Herald. She paints landscapes and murals, collects pictures, writes books about them. For the past two years a handsome series of yellow-bound quartos on Modern Art have been appearing over the colophon of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Maud Dale wrote two of these books, one on Picasso, one on Modigliani. Booksellers know that not Alfred Knopf but Maud Dale is paying the publication cost of the whole series...
Wise to the ways of dealers the Dales made several astute provisions in founding their French Museum. To prevent the ossification which creeps over many a museum's board, no one may be a trustee for a term longer than three years. To check commercialism, no living artist may give a one-man show in the pictures of no one pictures dealer or collector who known to deal in pictures may be shown exclusively...