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...hurt by TIME's jackassery. And I may add that my authority for Ingersoll's agnosticism-not atheism- is, in addition to the evidence of his lectures, the statement of his wife, who probably knew more about his opinions and beliefs than does even the infallible vaudeville artist who edits the literary section of TIME. Easily the most unsatisfactory point about TIME is the air of shoulder-chip infallibility which the editors of TIME affect, and not even a belief in God justifies this in a reviewer...
John Sargent died in 1923, reading peacefully one evening in his London bed. An artist who transplanted a half-acre of roses for a garden picture, and carried a stuffed gazelle about Europe for another work, he was painstaking. A Victorian who said, "Ruskin, don t you know-rocks and clouds-silly old thing", he had critical independence. An observer who called English trees "old Victorian ladies going perpetually to church in a land where it is always Sunday afternoon," he was more whimsy-realistic than imaginative. An artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model...
...Seeing this revival of Margaret Anglin's onetime success is like reading last year's almanac. It is not ancient enough to be antique or new enough to be curious, or great enough for the decades. It is just faded. There are offered in stock: 1) an artist, married but fascinated by his model, 2) a wife, married to the artist and ready to "fight for him," 3) a model, beautiful but not for long. In the end the artist comes back home. Most interest attaches to Miss Anglin, who, dedicated in the past to the Greek tragedy...
Feodor Chaliapin, most famed Russian operatic basso, received news last week in London that the Soviet Trade Union of Artists in Moscow, had just voted to deprive him of his cherished, official Russian title, "The People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone...
Died. Clarence Coles Phillips, 45, famed artist of magazine covers near New Rochelle, N. Y.: of kidney trouble...