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George Inness, who rejected the literal-minded grandeur of this school for simpler, more warmly painted, atmospheric studies of nature. Place of honor at the Whitney last week was occupied by Inness' The Home of the Heron, a scene of deep forest splashed with...
That Brasher's original paintings might be together forever, he and Nephew Philip, the artist's business aid, negotiated an agreement with Connecticut's State Park & Forest Commission in 1934: Brasher would give his paintings; the State would within two years build a wheel-shaped gallery for them in Kent Falls State Park. Month ago, the museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large...
Eleanor meets Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny...
Died. Donald Robert Perry Marquis, 59, columnist, humorist, playwright; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Forest Hills, N. Y. Author of Dreams and Dust, The Old Soak, The Dark Hours, he was best known for the adventures of mehitabel the amorous cat ("toujours gaie toujours gaie") and of archie, the cockroach which hopped from key to key of the author's typewriter, composing...
...Said Forest Ray Moulton, Chicago astronomer and executive secretary of the Association: "Science is the first line defense of freedom of the mind. Of all things it, on the whole, is most nearly objective and least involved in the prejudices and emotions of men. Its conclusions are capable of being most easily tested. When free, it knows no nationality, race or creed. Its spirit is a model for the world...