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Artist Doctoroff was a modest illustrator in Dallas, Tex. when his Coolidge drawing, done from photographs, won over 1,000 others, was made the official campaign picture. He also drew Vice-Presidential Candidate Dawes. Thereupon Artist Doctoroff moved to Chicago, to get in big-time portraiture. Since then, a craftsman who wears an arty-looking smock but otherwise is thoroughly conservative and businesslike, he has painted a dozen portraits a year, at an average $1,500 apiece...
Pipe-sucking Oscar Bruno Bach began his career in Germany. At the age of 18 he made a wrought-metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII. He came to America 26 years ago, set up shop in Manhattan as a metal craftsman and industrial designer. Turning out Renaissance church doors, table lamps, fruit bowls, salt shakers and a streamlined typewriter, he inspired publicity agents to call him "the American Cellini...
...they could be more effective if 36-year-old James Gould Cozzens had a little more clearly outgrown his hero. As a psychologist he has the failing of sometimes being taken in by his subjects. Skilled though he is as a craftsman, Author Cozzens still shows a sophomoric taste for elaborate ironies and facetious quotations from the Oxford Book of English Verse. Result: Cozzens, who continues to perform as if he might some day write a really good novel, is still a quite good entertainment...
...absurd to criticize Grosz on the score of techniue, for he is a polished craftsman. In most instances his supposedly crude manipulation of line and what may appear to be a sloppy method of organization, in reality, are masterly examples of precise adaptation of style to subject matter. And it is equally absurd to criticize the Germanborn American on the basis of obscenity or vulgarity. Obscenity and vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem...
...grey, handsome, nervous, highly efficient Hollywood veteran, who has pulled through such problem pictures as The Crowd Roars, The Great Waltz, The Wizard of Oz, recently directed two of M.G.M.'s greatest moneymakers, Captains Courageous, Test Pilot. On Feb. 27, Fleming started the cameras rolling. Conscientious Craftsman Fleming drove his company hard...