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...magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless...
...Died. Francis Barraud, artist; in London. Barraud painted one great picture, His Master's Voice*, famed phonograph advertisement. He intended the picture for the Royal Academy. It was rejected. He sold it to the Victor for ?100. in 1921, the Company awarded him a life annuity...
...France (French)-Coles Phillips, famed hosiery and silverware artist; Ina Claire, actress; 40 U. S. ex-Ambulance drivers returning after a visit to the Western Front...
...difference between these people and Mr. Powys lies in the fact that the latter is an artist. His book is in formed with the spirit of Africa as with a sensible presence, is haunted with the shadow of that jungle in whose twilight incredible beasts wage their truceless wars and come down by night to drink from the river-pools under the swinging constellations of the Cross- constellations that see, here and there, man's fugitive campfires, how dwarfed in that illimitable waste! Reading, one can almost detect an odor, acrid, animal, exciting -the smell of Africa...
Cartoonists pillory their victims more cruelly, and at a greater risk of libel, than the most unscrupulous of picture editors. Last November, TIME reproduced a damning pen sketch of W. E. D. Stokes, Manhattan realtor, done by Artist Marsh of the Daily News at the time of Mr. Stokes' divorce suit...