Puffing nervously at a thin cigar, vigorous, talkative Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) strode about the galleries of the National Academy of Design, of which he is president, last week on the Academy's 110th varnishing day. Buttonholing critics and newshawks he kept insisting :
"Don't be too hard on this year's show, will you, boys ! I don't care what you say about next year's, but this year we really have tried to pep things up, we've done our best."
Loyally therefore, critics suppressed the usual clichés about the backwardness, the stodginess of all Academies....
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