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...untimely age. He answered one of Thomas Alva Edison's famed questionnaires so astutely that he got a position in the Edison laboratories, specializing in lighting. To the cinema studios then went he and invented special lighting effects for Gloria Swanson's The Humming Bird. Drifting to New Orleans, he became manager of a Little Theatre, hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of Tulane University. Somebody told him he should be an artist. So Douglas Brown became an artist. Scorning art schools, he invented his own technique. Scorning easels, palettes and other effete appurtenances, he paints crosslegged on the ground...
...More Game Birds in America foundation opened its offices fortnight ago in Manhattan. Unlike most other bird societies, its aim is propagation of birds rather than conservation. The members believe that U. S. game birds are being destroyed by "vermin" and starved, not shot to death. Land drainage, which has dried up the marshy places where ducks feed, is partly responsible for the fact that there are only about one and three-quarters wild ducks left for every U. S. citizen. Inspired by the British system whereby game birds have increased 900% since the War, Mr. Knapp has formulated...
...Author. Maurice Maeterlinck, 68, Belgian mystic, playwright, scientist, does not live in Belgium because he says Belgium does not approve of artists. In his villa near Nice he lives with his young second wife (he divorced Georgette LeBlanc in 1919). Other books: The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird, Pellcas et Melisande...
...Pearson, who had been much hurt by the civil bird war, heard the opposition through, defended his policies. He said that he was not ashamed to admit that he believes in cooperating with the sportsman. Wise hunters are more inter sted in conserving birds than are most other U. S. citizens, he believes...
...insurgents proved to have small power in the meeting. Some of them objected, complained of "steam roller tactics." Three directors up for reelection, whom the insurgents had hoped to defeat, were reinstated. One of these was Dr. Pearson. In an attempt to restore peace among the bird-lovers, he established a committee of three to investigate the charges made against him. On the committee are Chauncey J. Hamlin, onetime chairman of the National Conference on Outdoor Recreation; Alexander Grant Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan; Dr. Thomas Barbour, curator of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology...