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...French parents, Constantin Guys began his career as an illustrator about the time that the fateful Hernani was produced. As Parisian as Baudelaire in his tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...
...Institute of Technology, but the Carlus live and practice in Manhattan. Their home is her studio, and more homelike than studious. But there was nothing amateur about the pictures she exhibited last week. They were gay, finely drawn, cleverly decorative in bright dressmaker's colors. They seemed eminently salable. Artist Carlu dimples as she admits that she was responsible for the sophisticated murals in the second floor lounge of Boston's Ritz-Carlton. "I did the figures," she says, "and my husband put in the landscape...
...these debunked times editors are chary of exaggerated Circus yarns. And "Mr. John" Ringling proscribes all conventional "build-ups." No freak, equestrienne, or wire artist is permitted to endorse cigarets, motor cars or trick neckwear. In the past decade the Big Show has grown extremely respectable. To advertise 26 zebras, the publicity men must be able to point to 26-count them...
Author Emily Hahn, 25, is a mining engineer, was the first woman to graduate in engineering from the University of Wisconsin. She has served as a guide in New Mexico, an artist in a Christmas card factory, teacher of geology in Manhattan's Hunter College; has done research work in London for the New York World...
...period that followed was perpetrated the great Wagner lie, or such is the contention of Philip Button Hum and Waverly Lewis Root in a book published last week called The Truth about Wagner,* Their reference is to Mein Leben, perhaps the most elaborate autobiographical account left by an artist. Authors Hum and Root claim now that much of it is false, base their statements on a manuscript collection made by the late Hon. May Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write a Wagner biography...