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Revelations of a Wife began in 1915. For a short time it ran in newspapers four days a week; then readers clamored for a six-day diet. Without interruption it continued, through war and normalcy, to tell of the problems of Dicky Graham, temperamental artist, and his wife, Madge-800 words a day for 13 years. Today it has a million readers in 200 newspapers (including the Chicago Evening Post, Indianapolis Star, Minneapolis Star, Buffalo Times, Erie, Pa., Times). Syndicated by the Newspaper Feature Service, Inc., of Manhattan, it has also been translated into Spanish for El Mundo of Havana...
...President was drawn from life last week, for the third time, by Artist Samuel Johnson Woolf, of TIME the Newsmagazine...
...pictures, orthodox in technique and lacking the extravagant coloring which Negroes are supposed to like, were good. Technically, the best were Artist Motley's studies of mulattoes, octaroons, quadroons, his Portrait of My Grandmother, and a gay and decorative panel, Parade. Ralph Pulitzer bought Octaroon. But the spectacular and atmospheric illuminations of East African voodooism were more original and hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black...
...company of individuals. This company serves as a stepping-stone to the larger companies; for many years there has been a crying need for smaller companies, such as this trained at home rather than studying in Europe. As there are no "stars" in the American Opera Company, an artist who is cast for a principal role one night may have a secondary part the following evening. Instead of a chorus, in the true sense, there is a large group of junior members, all of whom are preparing to sing individual roles. It is not unusual for a member...
...people who came to church that afternoon was Haldane MacFall, then a London art critic, now the author of a biography of Artist Aubrey Beardsley. His book says little about Beardsley's family, his schooldays, his friends. It conveys scarcely any of the color of the period, already so remote and glittering, in which Beardsley drew his astonishing pictures for The Yellow Book. Only between the somewhat heavy lines of Author MacFall's writing can be discovered the eccentric tragedy of Beardsley's last year of life, when, while he was doing his best drawings...