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Flame of Love. Since this Chinese spectacle of ancient silk weaving has been backed by a silk firm (Cheney Bros.), it might be expected that as drygoods it would be very beautiful. But the story has as much place in it as a bull in a china shop. It has less action than the bull. It saunters deliberately through the legendary romance of the silk-weaving championship of Canfu, when a youth who could spin the magic flame silk was nearly consumed in the 'blandishments of a temptress instigated by a wily rival. Save for some provocative muscle dances...
...Architectural League has also recently awarded a medal to Henri Creange, of Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing concern, for the best work in the furthering of industrial...
...School also, the scholarship in memory of William Cheney Brown, Jr., of the Class of 1914, an officer in the World War who died while in service, has been won by R. C. Hoeben of Portland, Oregon, a graduate of the University of Oregon, now a first-year student in the school...
...critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
...curious outgrowth of the strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...