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...Biltmore. In 1890, with Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition ) still three years off, and popular interest in art largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
...effect of the story is gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an exact picture of an epoch...
...institutional notion of a theatre (workshops for scenery and costumes had been organized, also a training school for young players) was intruding upon the bigger, finer ideas with which they had begun. Thus vaguely, with idealistic intonation, the sisters have always revealed themselves. Alice, now married to British Artist Herbert Crowley, lives, in Paris. But Irene has carried on in the same lofty spirit. As "the Lewisohn Sisters" she inaugurated the production of "symphonic music with stage and orchestra" for which she has written the scenarios, done the directing.* Out of these experiments grew last week's performances...
Other Joyce books: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber Music, Exiles (a play...
...Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very influential. His books, however, lack the control of a great artist." Says Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating to conscious writers of subconscious fiction." Controversy still rages about whether or not Ulysses is really obscene. Joyce himself does not like dirty stories. A U. S. admirer chucklingly told Editor...