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Applying to authors Major Bowes' principle of discovering latent talent, Reader's Digest magazine has announced a $5000 prize contest for non-fiction articles by persons who have never before contributed to national periodicals...
Since the announced purpose of the competition is the encouragement of new talent, the only restriction is that no one is eligible who has previously written for national magazines. Five prizes of $1000 each will be awarded to the authors of the five articles "judged most interesting by Reader's Digest Standards...
With an unusually large turn-out answering the first rehearsal call, Director Arthur Hurley and Dance Director William Holbrook are already selecting possible talent for the forthcoming Hasty Pudding Show of 1936, entitled "The Lid's Off". Choruses are at work practicing and the cast is rapidly approaching completion. Members of the ensemble at present include, Francis A. Wendell '37, Donald Rowell '37, W. Grosvenor Davis '37, F. Lee Wendell '38, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Renouf Russell '38, John A. Roosevelt '38, Willliam S. Pier '38, Benjamin Welles 2d '38, Gilbert E. Jones '38, Cammann Newberry '37, Fitz William Sargent...
Born in Philadelphia in 1870. Maxfield Parrish inherited his talent from his father. Etcher Stephen Parrish. Comfortably off, he was sent to Haverford college, later to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There he began experimenting with that deep luminous color with which he was later to win his popular renown. Not until he went to Paris did he learn the trick from copyists of Flemish and Italian primitives. A Maxfield Parrish sky starts with a wash of thin plaster on a prepared board, followed by a coat of pure ultramarine blue. Successive layers of transparent blue glazes...
Using the entire squad, Coach Rene Peroy will endeavor to uncover some talent for the Andover encounter next Saturday...