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...American dramatic art as well as the American spirit, go see the circus. There you will find the supreme expression of America's delight in size and speed, in superlatives and hyperbole. Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before presented to the human eye. Its tent is "the greatest stretch of canvas ever...
John Sargent is the only individual for whom the National Gallery has ever broken its rule against accepting the work of a living artist. Ihe gloomy, smoke-darkened pile facing Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Monument is as British an institution as Westminster Abbey. To be honored by either, artists have had wait for death...
...opposition to the gallery s action: 1) "the paintings are not up to Sargent's own high standard ; 2) "it is unwise to break tradition and accept paintings before time had proved their excellence"; 3) "in any case, nine paintings of the same family by the same artist are more than were needed for one wall of a single gallery...
ROMEO AND JULIET-Old Verona revived by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters to the complete satisfaction of critical New York. Proving that bhakespeare was not only an immortal artist but an experienced and practical man of the theatre...
...Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...