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...Department of Justice Building in Washington last week another fresco panel was being finished in the lobby adjoining the Attorney General's office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross...
Closer to the old-fashioned esthete is hollow-eyed, taciturn Maurice Sterne, hard at work in California last week on a panel for the Department of Justice. Once a bottle washer in a Manhattan saloon, he later spent many peaceful years in Italy, taught Edward Bruce, a prime advocate of the Government's new deal for artists, how to paint...
Last November, what was to have been the third Lamson trial fizzled in a mistrial because two names were unaccountably missing from the jury panel...
...years, David Lamson went to court to fight for his life last week. So rare was a citizen of Santa Clara County who had not made up his mind about Lamson's guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before, the prosecution was ready...
...Collier's, illustrated many a children's book. One of the best known barroom murals in the U. S. is his work. At the turn of the century John Jacob Astor commissioned Artist Parrish to paint a picture of Old King Cole for his Hotel Knickerbocker. The panel, 28 feet long, showing the pipe, the bowl, the fiddlers three, was the wonder of Times Square for nearly 20 years. Last autumn it reappeared in the St. Regis King Cole Room. In addition Maxfield Parrish has decorated the Ladies' Home Journal Building in Philadelphia, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...