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...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...
...matters theatrical will conclude correctly that it is a farce, that it deals in marital problems with an engaging indelicacy, that it smartly amusing. Added footnotes must contain the intelligence that Miss Bordoni sings four songs with her customary success; that Bruce McRae plays her leading man; that one Eric Blore, a recent acquisition from London, does the ultimate silliest as a silly Englishman...
...Eric Gill's War memorial for Leeds University, England, recently unveiled by the Bishop of Ripon, has aroused as much comment for being " off the subject" as Sir William Orpen's painting To the Unknown British Soldier. Gill's work represents Christ with a seven-thonged whip, driving before him a woman with a vanity case, a man with a pawnbroker's emblem, men in top hats and frock coats. The sculptor explained: " We still have money-changers in England...
...Moon Calf (Felix) and Eric Dorn: they are too despicable to be yourself and have too fine a sinful time to be your neighbor. He lives inside a commutation ticket and brings the groceries home at night...
...people read Moon Calf and Eric Dorn because they like to hear their own opinions What can one say of Waverly? What devastating paradox can one derive from Peregrine Pickle? But turn to Many Marriages and its kind and by comparison criticism flows as voluminously, noisily, instinctively as Niagara. When other vanities pass, there still remains one's own invincible opinion...