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Dilemma: A lady has her portrait painted. When the portrait is finished, she pays the artist his fee, say $10,000. But, since she feels that he has not done justice to her appearance, the lady allows the artist to take back the picture for improvement. Having "improved" it, the artist returns the painting-together with his bill for, say, $7,000. Should the lady pay the bill or allow the artist...
Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat upon the precedent his suit had established or to bewail the obdurateness of Mrs. Brooks-Aten. It was the second week of his first comprehensive public exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Manhattan...
...smoke crawling out of cornices in the House wing close to the dome. Up four flights of circular iron stairs he raced to discover a roaring blaze in a room under the eaves used for storage of old Congressional documents. Also in the fiery room were the materials of artists who constantly retouch and restore the Capitol's decorations. On the floor, unconscious, lay Charles Moberly, 61, Capitol artist. He was dragged out, carried downstairs, revived...
Like many another, Architect Lynn suspected a match or cigaret butt had been carelessly thrown into inflammable oils, paints, papers. Still incoherent from inhaled fumes. Artist Moberly babbled that he did not smoke cigarets, only cigars, that, in fact, he did not smoke at all. Later he admitted that he had had "a couple of drinks" in the afternoon, had fallen asleep over his desk in the storage room. With him, he said, was a man named Sam Hall who had been reading a newspaper. When he awoke. Hall was fighting the fire...
...National Automobile Show (see p. 43) was held in Manhattan's gaudy Grand Central Palace where gleaming cars stood incongruously on rich carpets and glib salesmen explained their various attractions. Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile. Some of the artists responsible for the renascence are now working on auto bodies: Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; Joseph Urban, Ziegfeld and Metropolitan Opera scenic artist; Helen Dryden, painter and fashion artist; the house of Cartier, jewelers...