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...Swiss art or British art, that he paints what he sees to the best of his ability and lets it go at that. As soon as possible he escaped from human society, spent hours in front of the black panther's cage in the Bronx Zoo. Last week before the Pittsburgh Show opened he was aboard ship, on his way back to Paris. Reporters might have fared better with First Prizeman Picasso. Friend of Matisse, but never a member of his early group of insurgents, Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), Pablo Ruiz Picasso has theories on art and believes...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...
...Season before last the book ranked as a best seller, later vying in popularity with The Specialist, the poesy of Edgar Guest and the Holy Bible. Because the story of the book was thin, most of its action could be retained in the play. This commonplace idyll of the Bronx begins with the very clinical seduction of Dot (Sylvia Sidney) by Eddie (Paul Kelly) in his hall-bedroom. They get married, await the birth of their child. Each, fearing that the other does not want the baby, pretends distress at its imminence. Not until after the child has been born...
...Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench. On Aug. 8 the County grand jury took revealing testimony (TIME, Aug. 25). Later, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt started State investigations into the Ewald case and into all Manhattan-&-The Bronx judgeships by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward, and by Justice Samuel Seabury for the Appellate Division, a Democrat but an oldtime Tammany foe. Justice Crater was not only a Tammanyman, but also president of the Cayuga Club, had been toastmaster at the dinner celebrating Magistrate Ewald's appointment...
...develops that "Doggie" (Donald MacDonald), the proprietor of a Bronx beer flat, and Bee (Sylvia Field) are living together only until Doggie's consumptive wife dies. After that Doggie has promised to make Bee "legitimate," a condition which she cherishes. But Doggie has a weakness for poker, a game at which he is invariably unsuccessful, so he and Bee are about to be ejected from their apartment. At this point appears "Curly," a bigtime horse race bookmaker. He volunteers to give Doggie and Bee lodgings which he and his associates use as a "phone room" (place to receive bets) during...