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...WILDER (Thornton) The Woman of Andros. Mint in dust Wrapper. New York...
...Like Thornton Niven Wilder but more so, Virginia Woolf is a widely-read if not popular writer whose public is largely made up of people who have not the vaguest idea what she is driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake...
...Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...
...beautiful girls in the magazine advertising sections came alive last week. Heretofore they have been hired by the illustrators, advertising artists and photographers who immortalize them, chiefly through agents John Robert Powers and Walter Thornton, who collect a commission for being in touch with artists. Counting on their own touch, 300 of Manhattan's 2,000 models-men, women & children-last week broke with the agents, organized a co-operative Models' Guild, complete with lounging rooms...
...Henry Worth Thornton resigned as president of Canadian National Railways. His duties were taken over by Samuel James Hungerford...