REGINALD MARSH
Star Burlesque BY REGINALD MARSH IN THE MIDDLE TWENTIES, Marsh’s interest in the theater became marked and he began to design stage sets. John Murray Anderson gave him a com- mission to do a curtain for The GreenwichVillage Follies, composed entirely of cartoons, and this led to Robert Edmond Jones asking him to help design …
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The Jungle BY REGINALD MARSH REGINALD MARSH, one of the best satirists of the American scene, was born in Paris in 1898. Both his parents were artists, and a conventional career at Lawrenceville and Yale did nothing to quench his own interest in the arts. At first a drummer, and then a maker of verse, …
Tattoo-Hair cut-Shave BY REGINALD MARSH REGINALD MARSH’S consuming passion is the drama of Manhattan, and he has set it down in so of its multifarious aspects that he can truly be called the Boswell of its side. His preoccupation with the shady side of New York life is, of course, linked up with the fact …
Felicia BY REGINALD MARSH Felicia is a copper line engraving of Reginald Marsh’s second wife, Felicia Meyers, who is also an artist. While Marsh’s is not an overintellectualized art, Felicia has a certain naive hauteur that recalls certain portraits of the Renaissance. It reminds one that Marsh has studied the Old Masters intensively. Here he …
Bread Line BY REGINALD MARSH MARSH, whose chief deficiency is composition, here reaches a compromise between his natural tendency to put down his facts without eliminating anything and a pull towards establishing a satisfactory relationship between forms. Bread Line is a sure-fire way of making the compromise, and if it lacks formal imagination of …
