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Seldom have U. S. amateurs of the arts had so good a chance to survey contemporary sculpture as they had last week, provided they would visit two cities. City No. 1 was Cleveland, whose Museum of Art concluded a comprehensive show of works by the best known men in present-day sculpture. City No. 2 was Manhattan, where exhibitions showed new work by some of the same sculptors and good work by several up-&-coming candidates. To those who attended the great exhibition of American sculpture at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1929, these shows were...
...Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife in his arms, expressed in a long embrace feelings he could not utter. The old man was Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, most famous of present-day composers and "Uncrowned King of Finland"; the occasion was his seventieth birthday...
Every university can claim it's doing a wonderful job because no one knows what it's supposed to do," he declared. Present-day universities are "extraordinary mixtures of specialization and general education...
Though most people think they feel sympathy for human wretchedness, it is a remarkable fact that present-day proletarian paintings are in general formalized, strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...popular wayside refreshment house the lampshades are adorned with the names and sentiments of present-day New Englanders. The appelations "Cookie," "Ducky," "Sandra Teetis," "Herman Milankoskywitz" strike the onlooker with a display of colors, varied handwriting, and added hieroglyphics. Beside the carefully letted name of "Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, stands a little message that will cause the historians of the next century to stroke their wisdom teeth in wonderment: "President Conant loves Marlene Dictrich...