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...Kahri? by Ignacio Zuloaga depicts the American girl in a Spanish costume and shawl against one of those haunting landscapes used as backgrounds by this artist. Portrait of My Mother by Malcolm Purcell shows a filial tenderness somewhat reminiscent of Whistler's famous portrait of his mother in its pose and lighting, although Purcell has used a landscape background for this interior subject. Sir William Orpen's Portrait of Richard F. Knoedler is the most academic of the three, displaying technical skill and a keen insight into character...
...father visited Robert Louis Stevenson, taking the child with him. The purpose of the visit was to make a bronze medal of the writer, who was then sick-a-bed, making his plans for a visit to the South Sea Islands. There was great difficulty in getting a pose which was not artificial and forced. The sculptor at last suggested that Stevenson write something. He picked up a sheet of paper and began, at once falling into the natural pose immortalized in the famed St. Gaudens Medal. At the end of the pose, Stevenson handed the sculptor the sheet...
...GOOSE HANGS HIGH?A pleasant snapshot of the younger generation throwing away its pose in time of need and almost overwhelming the older generation with offers of help...
...ballot (TIME, Dec. 17). Then Henry Ford came out for Coolidge (TIME, Dec. 31). A fortnight ago the Non-Partisan Leaguers of North Dakota, led by their two insurgent Senators, Ladd and Frazier, technically Republicans, indicated a preference for Coolidge. Last week Senator James Watson, who long wanted to pose as a favorite son of Indiana, renounced his aspirations in favor of Coolidge...
There is a difference, however. The East Indian, once dead, could be forgotten. The Leavenworth convict is not killed but remains to be a very acute problem. If he is kept in prison, he can pose as an example of the tyranny of the capitalistic oligarchy; and if he is freed, he can carry on his work of socialism and anarchy quite as effectively in peace as in war. Indeed it is probable that this petition of amnesty which the President has granted, after its presentation to three successive administrations was offered partly with the very thought of placing...