JANUARY 4-7, 2020 PART II: THE ALLURE AND MAGNETISM OF ROCKWELL KENT
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2019 Part 2 -- The Allure and Magnetism of Rockwell Kent January 4-7, 2020 ABOVE – Headline for Gladys Baker’s interview with Rockwell Kent in the January 22, 1928 Birmingham News (BN). BELOW – A photo of Gladys Baker appearing with an interview and profile of her from the September 29, 1929 issue of the BN. The caption beneath the photo reads: Miss Gladys Baker, Birmingham News-Age Herald feature writer, whose ability to put personalities into words and phrases has received favorable comment of the most conservative critics in New York and Europe. Her interviews with famous personages have been reprinted in publications in France, Turkey and India. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” A comment made by a newspaper man in the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford – with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Lee Marvin. At the end o...