he National Portrait Gallery in February unveiled a rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln. The nine-foot-tall portrait, painted by W.F.K. Travers in 1865, is one of only three known full-length renderings of the 16th president and
‘Glorifying the American Girl’
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD—the most famous showman of his time, and a genius of that great American art form, the publicity stunt—began his career with an animal act: “The Dancing Ducks of Denmark.” Actually, the ducks, like Ziegfeld, were Illinois natives, an
