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...colony on the banks of the Sbarmati River at Ahmedabad is 21-year-old Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively...
Thus, hopefully, last week spoke President Samuel Cummins of Classic Productions, impresarios of educational cinemas, concerning what promised to be a hot legal battle over a film he had billed in the following manner...
...French Brussels is of course fiercely anti-Fleming. The photograph showed Queen Elisabeth not merely in the company of Flemings but Flemings drinking Flemish beer. At Her Majesty's elbow loomed a beer keg. Around her in attitudes made classic by Franz Hals lolled a group of Flemish gentlemen carelessly attired, puffing blissfully at their Flemish pipes...
...most scientific of modern artists. In 1900, when he first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds and melancholy children in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec and Daumier. Always changing his style, he developed what art critics like to call his Blue Period, his Rose Period, his Neo-Classic Period, etc., etc. He became more and more abstract, more and more removed from humanity. Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism. He is the wellspring of that latest artistic unintelligibility, Surrealism, which has been defined as "the expression of thought without the control of reason, that is, the painting...
...mile and a half (distance of the Belmont Stakes since 1926), was a new record for the Belmont; his total money winnings ($164,075) for Wood Memorial, Derby, Belmont and his two-year-old races made it seem likely that in later races this year-the Arlington Classic, at Arlington, 111.; Travers, at Saratoga-he would pass Gallant Fox's record...