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...Hang Out S. R. O. Sign Early...
...declared: "The leases we signed for Naval Reserve No. 1 are the best the United States ever got financially. And now let me tell you something else about them. Admiral Robison when I last saw him said to me: 'Doheny, they may put up one gibbet and hang me on it and another gibbet and hang you beside me. If they do I'll die happy in the knowledge that we have saved the Pacific coast from attack. We have done our duty to the United States. We have made it possible to protect the Pacific Islands...
...schools are represented; paintings ranging through chromo, academic and modernist styles in all their manifestations hang in assorted order on the overcrowded walls. The collection contains art good and bad, famous and obscure, enormous and microscopic, bewildering the casual observer by its startling democracy...
...Independent Artists is in progress at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. This exhibition (paintings and sculpture) is entirely different from any other important showing, having no jury to pass on the suitability of a picture. Each artist is entitled to rent a certain amount of wall-space, hang whatever pleases him. The exhibition this year has more entries than any previous Independent show...
...sacred band has been killed by prosperity. For several years it played the drum and bugle of propaganda for its output of composition, but now its members, or several of them, have reaped consequent benefits. Darius Milhaud, in particular, has come to success. Therefore, they do not have to hang together, since there is no immediate likelihood of their hanging separately. They, or the more prosperous of them, have gone their own way. But the indomitable Eric Satie (who founded the "Six") has formed a new group of other ambitious ones. This he calls the "Four," and it is they...