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Even before Arthur B. Davies' death in 1928, Mrs. Rockefeller had developed a sharp nose of her own for talent. Tramp ing through galleries, she has spotted many a promising newcomer. She was the first collector to buy a painting by an aged Pittsburgh housepainter named John Kane, who before his death in 1934 became the high-priced rage of the modern art world (TIME, June 3 et ante}. She was one of the first to buy from the eccentric Louis Eilshemius...
...season. Instead of standing around as background for the youngsters, the older members of the cast steal the show for themselves. If this turn of events surprised Playwright Riggs, Playwright Riggs, hitherto noted for poetic horse operas like Green Grow the Lilacs, simply flabbergasted Broadway by revealing an unsuspected talent for Grade A comic characterization...
...dangerous and habit-forming, and therefore the traffic therein should be suppressed, they were of course disappointed. As for new ideas about how to advocate the cause of sobriety TIME itself referred to the new songs introduced at St. Louis, and the press associations considered the plan of home talent dramas developed by the Anti-Saloon League sufficiently new to give the story nationwide circulation. Also there was the new idea of a $2,000,000 advertising campaign to counteract the high-pressure advertising and sales promotion activities of the liquor interests. Your implication that because former leaders...
Against such an away of talent the Harvard moment will have their hands full, but Coach Harry Ulen expects a creditable showing from his team. Bob Rutier, such more freestyle star, will force Chreodowell to the limit. Ulen thinks, while Graham Cammiags, an- other Sophomore, and Captain Bob Fisher should do well in the back stroke. Bud Fits and Buddy Merriam ought to win the diving events, even though they will be pitted against Ray Lacombe, New England low board champion...
...spent most of her time on her grandfather's farm six miles out of Sutton. As a matter of course she was taught to sew, fry chicken, make hot bread and pies. She was no prodigy. Practicing irked her. But she was so naturally musical, showed such talent for the piano that when time came for her to go off to school she was sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. There she discovered the voice that won her successive scholarships from the Juilliard Musical Foundation, months of sound study in Germany, engagements at the Berlin Staatsoper...