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Archipenko is the quintessence of cubism, the sculptural analogue of Pablo Picasso. He represents a movement which has as yet scarcely penetrated the American consciousness, but is the dominating mode in Continental Art today. Archipenko will never have a great popular following, but he has made his reputation with artists. He experiments with bizarre media for sculpture ? glass, wood, papier-mache and paint, polished sheet-iron reflecting surrounding men and things. He uses symbolism, hieroglyphics, simplification, expresses cerebral intangibilities, "models the atmosphere" by leaving holes in matter...
...trace of professional whimsicality or sentimentalism-it has all the charm of Barrie at his best without one drop of glycerine in its composition. Humorous, beautiful, poignant with airy melancholy, this minute and perfect comedy of puppets and their masters is a complete and singular achievement in its mode. Our time has produced little fantasy, but this is of the best of it-and it will last. Gay and incredible as a dream in a fairytale, it has that reality about it which no laborious exactitude of realism can capture- the innate, unmistakable reality...
...economic end appears almost impossibly altruistic. There can never be joy in labor while men act as mere cogs in a great producing machine, and without this producing machine the vast population of the earth cannot be supported even in the simplest mode of life. To change the present order into one of production fitted to the "human needs of the producer" as well as the community would mean practically a return to the family producing unit, long since discarded as impossible for sustaining life. Finally, repudiating personal gain as an economic motive is a thing more easily said than...
Paris fashions, now interesting the women of the world, include some novel effects. In general embroidered materials and fur trimmings are à la mode...
...Early is a living tragedy, for he has been the subject of hot dispute among specialists, and has frequently been championed by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. His disease has not progressed, apparently, and has never hindered him from a normal mode of life. But while he lived in freedom at various times, his reputation followed him, and indignant neighbors always hounded him away. His wife has stuck by him. though separated from him by a brick partition in their former Washington home. Early will be returned to Louisiana...