Art: U.S. ART SHOCK

"U. S. Art Shock"

"Hell's ringing bells!" shouted a large, exasperated Detroiter last week into his telephone. "I wish the Sun had never heard of Romney or of me either!"

The gentleman referred to the New York Sun, which was obtaining a telephonic interview, and to George Romney, the 18th Century English cabinet-maker's son who achieved the niceties of Cavendish Square and rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac...

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