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The Voice of NEW YORK
By Louis Sobol

Brieflets:-Manhattan applauds the air-ease which has come to one of its favorite comics, Lou Holtz...His first two broadcasts wobbled woefully-but Monday night revealed the true Holtz...Welcome, too, is the news that another pet comedian, the quickpatterer, Jack Waldron, now has his own air show starting tonight...Waldron succeeds the popular Jay C. Flippen...One of America's outstanding sculptresses with an international reputation, is Cornelia Van A. Chapin, who cuts stone direct from life without preliminary sketch...She was born in Waterford, Conn.-just outside of New London...The Theatre Guild, which has been out-stripped by its younger rivals the Group Theatre and the Mercury Group, stages something of a comeback in having the foresight to present Lunt and Fontanne in Chekov's "Sea Gull"...One of Broadway's tallest showgirls, Mary Dowell, six-foot-two, writes a column for her home town paper in Fort Worth, texas...Her intimates cal her "Stutterin' Sam"...Adela Rogers St. Johns' next novel "Walking on Air," will theme around "reefer parties"...It will appear in Cosmopolitan...
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EVE.Journal
Apr.1.'38

Miss Chapin, Sculptor, Is Honored at Dinner
Harriet Blackstone is Hostess in Her Studio

Miss Harriet Blackstone gave a dinner last evening in her studio at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park, in honor of Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin, whose exhibition of sculptures is on view in the Fifteen Gallery, 37 West Fifty-seventh Street.  Other guests included Miss Chapin's sister, Mrs. Francis Biddle, of Philadelphia; Mr. H. A. Jules-Bois, French art critic; Miss Stell Anderson, Mrs. Grace Humiston and Mrs. Maude Walker Guthrie.  Miss Chapin's exhibition ends today.
N.Y. Tribune.

Christian Science Monitor.  Boston Mass.

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By Courtesy of The Fifteen Gallery, New York, to The Christian Science Monitor  PENGUIN:  A Carving in Black Granite by Cornelia Van A. Chapin
April.14.1938

The artist carved this dignified gentleman direct from life.  Miss Chapin visits many different zoos and takes her models as she finds them, spending long hours in contemplation of the characteristic aspects of each subject.  The carving is all done by hand, from the roughing to the final polishing.  Miss Chapin uses a variety of materials, the penguin being black granite.  Among her other pieces are an elephant carved from an African tree, a tortoise carved in volcanic rock, and a guinea pig of creamy German stone.

The penguin, though, is one of the most popular of Miss Chapin's pieces.  He was shown in the United States Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of Art and Technique of 1937.  Wherever he appears he draws admiring crowds.  Yet, as the penguin is a bird of poise, Miss Chapin reports that he remains unchanged by flattery.  But there is something in his eye that leads the observer to believe he is not entirely displeased by admiration.