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...will attempt to turn Mr. Chamberlain's visit into another Munich deal at France's expense. Although Mr. Chamberlain announced as his New Year's resolution that "Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper, L'Epoque, an imaginary telephone conversation between the Axial partners...
...Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery of Sloan, Luks, Henri, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast and William Glackens first linked these artists as "The Eight" U. S. individualists. None of them changed so much in the next ten years as Glackens. With much observation his versatile eye became intensely selective. As late as 1912 he painted a simple little picture of a snowy square and a lady hailing a streetcar (see cut) which perfectly evoked an atmosphere, mood and period. Then he selected a lighter palette, and from about 1913 on, Renoir became the dominant influence...
Maitre Moro-Giafferri has won many famous French criminal cases. His most celebrated defense, although it failed, was that of "the French Bluebeard," Henri Desire Landru, accused of butchering ten women and a boy. The defense arguments in this case are still regarded by members of the Paris bar as tops in technical perfection and legal virtuosity. Landru was guillotined February...
...studios. Although her book stimulates readers to think for themselves, it also shows her grave limitations: lack of contact with, and a prim insensitivity to. the genuine achievements of the movement whose misadvertisement she abhors. Few lovers of art will agree with her acid comments on Grand Old Man Henri Matisse, some of whose recent paintings and drawings, including Rumanian Blouse (see cut), pleased visitors last week at the Manhattan Gallery of Son Pierre Matisse...