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Fifteen years ago the Independent society was founded by a group of serious younger artists, among them: John Sloan, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Samuel Halpert. Since then New York has sprouted out all over with modernist galleries. The discovery of artistic talent has become a business as highly organized as philanthropy, with museums, trust funds, press agents of its own. Left to exhibit at the Independents' show are a few loyal veterans of its early days, and the hopelessly mediocre, the would-be humorists, the self-advertisers. Some 700 of them paid their $6 each last week to show...
...have probably heard little if anything of Henri Gaudier; you have doubtless heard nothing at all of Sophie Brzeska (pronounced "B'jeska"). After reading Savage Messiah you will wonder...
Death, as to many a young soldier, came to Henri Gaudier in 1915, when he was 23. He was good at fighting and had risen to be a sergeant. Far from being a professional soldier, he was an artist, a radical who had left France to escape his military service. But he was a whole-hogger: when he did anything he did it like St. Michael chasing Lucifer from heaven...
...Battle, Raid & Patrol; The Lighter Side of War, et al. Some of the authors: John Galsworthy, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Maurois, the late Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Laurence Stallings, John W. Thomason Jr., the late C. E. Montague, Leonard Hastings Nason, "Saki" (the late H. H. Munro), Henri Barbusse, Liam O'Flaherty...
...Author. Gabrielle Colette (Mme Henri de Jouvenel), 57, is famed in France as Foremost Woman of Letters and as an epicure. Her late first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars.* wrote many a lyric, essay and sophisticated lovestory signed "Willy." He collaborated with Colette on the famed Claudine series. Colette has written nearly 40 books. Though she did not invent the Modern French Woman in fiction, she is credited with supplying "the organs, the accuracies, the mind and the heart." Other translated novels: Mitsou (TIME, July 7), Cheri, Claudine at School...