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Punishment for breaking the law was set at $100 fine or one year in prison. To the last provision was added the following unprecedented language, devised by blind Senator Gore in cynical comment on the legislative powers being given over to the Administration...
...prison day begins. Bells sound. . . . -Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing...
...more than 100 lurid canvases. Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times had suggested the exhibition, Mrs. John Sloan, the artist's wife, had arranged it and Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt had consented to be a patroness. Every one of its pictures was painted in prison...
...escape the grey monotony of their confinement for crime, the artists, almost to a man, painted outdoor scenes, portraits, religious subjects in loud clashing colors. Only a handful busied themselves with prison themes. Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell...
...VALIANT WIFE-Margaret Wilson -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) How a U. S. privateer captain landed in Dartmoor Prison in 1812, and how his Quaker wife got him out; supposedly founded on fact. Romantic but not first-rate...