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...under piles of work in the University Library and such haunts of learning for the past few weeks begin to tire and take to giving parties instead. One is now daily besieged with invitations to luncheons, teas, sherry, dinner, and more peculiar functions. Work is temporarily put in the background, to be reinstated as an immediate reality when we find at the beginning of next term that these all-important yearly exams are only a month ahead. But for the present gaiety is king...
Featuring the exhibition is a self portrait in the lower room of the museum. Bristling quince-colored hair, streaked with light, is brushed back en brosse into a stippled green background. The face has a yellow tinge, the eyes are disdainful and cold above an astonishing fiery red beard. It is not hard to imagine the possessor of such features racing helter-skelter through life and at last landing in an insane asylum...
...lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...
...Background of the pepper case was as dizzy as any U. S. dance of corporate dummies. Between Garabed Bishirgian's barren birthplace and his swank mansion in London's Park Lane lay a speculative trail that included caviar, tin and Turk ish rugs. By reputation his "only god was a rising share," though on week ends he was devoted to his 600 pigs on his model farm in Surrey. His lavish stag parties were the talk of the City...
...show" Mechau returned at length to Denver, won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the artistic and historic background of the West, and was given his first one-man show by the Denver Junior League. With his brother Vaughan, Artist Mechau is at present working on an illustrated history of the Pony Express. Frank Mechau hates to leave the house while working. "For the past four months," said he, "I never made a journey beyond the garbage...