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...Faces of the Month" and "A Budget for a $25,000 Income in Chicago" were self-explanatory lesser features toward the back-of-the-book in Vol. 1, No. 1, where a magnificent forest of advertisements arose. Hearing that a "most beautiful magazine in America" was forthcoming, advertisers had flocked in, most of them with specially prepared copy, until they filled 106 pages and three covers, making Vol. 1, No. 1 a 3-lb., 184-page phenomenon...
...errors of the past, it would merely have postponed his entrance into the École des Beaux-Arts and his training under Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau and Gérôme. The tradition of these ateliers has been carried on since by such conventionalists as George de Forest Brush of the U. S. (who preceded Matisse in the classes of Gérôme but it is hard to believe that the more rebellious young men who visited them through the Du Mauriesque streets of Paris found them dull or stuffy. The apprentice artists of that day, those...
Fairchild cabin planes were early favorites in Canada. The Canadian Department of National Defense owns 32 (to the chagrin of English companies), for forest patrol, aerial photography and survey operations. Fairchild business is so good that the company is now constructing its own plant at Longueuil, 15 minutes from the heart of Montreal. Adjacent are its eight-rayed landing field, its seaplane T-dock on the St. Lawrence...
...birds were collected mostly by shooting and by use of ingenious native traps set in the forest at night. The skins were all prepared in the field and many of them transported over a thousand miles down rivers, along mountain trails, in the rainy season, before they could be shipped home. They arrived in perfect condition...
When this dilemma presented itself to Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait...