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...beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member of the group of famous pre-War radicals which included Walter Lippmann, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, Mabel Dodge-make the best reading...
...outstanding contribution from New Mexico was the work of Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, whose paintings are so finely grained they suggest the surface of a highly polished piece of maple. This year, Artist Blumenschein's contribution was a populous piece called Ourselves and Taos Neighbors, in which celebrities like Mabel Dodge Luhan, the late D. H. Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. Blumenschein, are planted as stiffly as figures in a family portrait in a maple-colored adobe interior. Typical of the surprises hidden among the 417 pieces in the show was the work of 42-year-old Novelist Ramon Guthrie, Scherzo from...
...Anson) Conger Goodyear, 60, looks like a healthy yeoman with whitening stubble hair and frosty blue eyes. He grew up in Buffalo, N. Y., where he had the luck to know a little girl named Mabel Dodge (later Luhan). who has recorded that his nickname was "Grouch" Goodyear. A Yaleman, class of '99. a Wartime colonel and commander of the 81st Field Artillery, "Grouch" Goodyear is president of Great Southern Lumber Co. and board chairman of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. He is also president of the Museum of Modern...
...Manhattan's sheet-music publishing industry) are in 2/4 or 4/4 time. But when, once in a blue moon, a waltz (3/4 time) catches on, it usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
...Painter Jacques-Emile Blanche pops in & out like some old friend who has been around for so long that nobody thinks to introduce him. As a result he has the unjustified obscurity of an oldster who is generally thought to have been dead a long time. He is in Mabel Dodge Luhan's memoirs and Arnold Bennett's diary. He knew Whistler, Degas, Cézanne, Rodin and Harold Nicolson. Henry James was his friend, as was Mallarmé, Thomas Hardy and King Edward VII. Blanche knew the originals of most of Proust's characters, and Proust...