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...largest assemblage of wax likenesses of celebrities ever assembled." This was an exuberant exaggeration. More remarkable was the fact that all the figures, half a hundred of them, are the work of a single encausticist, industrious, 23-year-old Katherine Stuberg, of Los Angeles. Encausticist Stuberg comes by her talent naturally. For three generations her family has modeled the hairless heads of statesmen, patriots, murderers and heroes in clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg's studio found the young encausticist still...
...like to think of itself as a mere repository for modern U. S. paintings. From its fat endowment it has bought throughout Depression far more pictures than it needed or could show as the kindest, most practical form of unemployment relief. It gives lectures. It publishes books. It encourages talent. And it is no more democratic than the Italian Government. Founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her good friend Juliana Force, with a board of directors of their own choosing, run the gallery exactly as they see fit. Every other year they give an Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. The third...
...supply of new talent is necessary here if Harvard is to regain its track supremacy, and it is believed that much of this talent will come from the football ranks. such men as Husband, Giles, Johnson, Field, and Jackson would give Cahners and Millard strong support in the weight-tossing...
Moreover, there is scarcely room in an academic community, however large, for two magazines. The competition that is bound to result is mutually harmful. In addition, the talent and ability that are behind to result is mutually harmful. In addition, the talent and ability that are behind any periodical are wasted if the personnel must continually bear in mind the problem of "beating: its opponent in subscription. The temptation of introducing sensational articles for business considerations is over present...
...Hudson he says: "The only living creatures he hated were full-feeders, publishers, stoats, weasels, and ferrets." George Moore's "was not a generous mind, but though full of treacheries to friendship it was unwavering in strict loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything...