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(1) Neysa McMein, interviewed on her return from her visit to the Western Front ()
Since I have lived through air bombing I never will be frightened at anything on earth. The terror of air raids cannot be imagined. They are heralded by the blowing of sirens and the ringing of church bells, and amid this din the lights are extinguished and then suddenly come the bombs, falling no one knows where. The noise they made is worse than that of the battles. The French immediately seek underground shelter - all over the cities places of safety are designated by signs - but the Americans prefer to stay above ground. When I was where there was a piano I rushed to it, and played as loudly as I could. The American boys in the hut would sit quietly in the dark. Once a building next to our hut was hit and totally demolished. Sometimes while riding on roads an enemy machine (a tank), which is always known by its peculiar trill, would come along and aim right at us. Trees were our only shelter.
(2) Marc Connelly, Voices Offstage ()
The world in which we moved was small, but it was churning with a dynamic group of young people who included Robert
Neysa Moran McMein
Neysa Moran McMeinAmerican artist, illustrator, and sculptor, –Neysa McMein worked as both an illustrator and portrait artist. She was trained at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Art Students League of New York. During WWI, McMein was an entertainer, along with Dorothy Parker, and illustrator for the military and travelled around France, work that awarded her the status of honorary non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps.
After returning from the war, McMein illustrated articles, covers, and advertisements as magazines such as McClure's, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. The character of "Betty Crocker" was also first designed by McMein. She further painted portraits of several presidents, actors, and writers.
Life magazine published an article on adult party games that featured Neysa McMein's famous New York gatherings, often entertaining the Algonquin Round Table, a group of local artist, writers, actors, and critics known for their wit, at these events.
McMein, Neysa (–)
American commercial illustrator and portraitist . Name variations: Marjory Edna McMein. Born Margary Edna McMein on January 24, , in Quincy, Illinois; died on May 12, , in New York City; daughter of Harry Moran McMein (a newspaper editor) and Isabelle Lee (Parker) McMein; attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League; married John Gordon Baragwanath (an engineer and writer), on May 18, ; children: daughter Joan Gordon Baragwanath; stepson.
Sold first drawing (); sold first magazine cover (); rode in dirigible airship (); hired by McCall's ().
Perhaps the first female artist ever to be invited to the White House to execute a portrait of a sitting president, Neysa McMein was born in in Quincy, Illinois, where her father was a newspaper editor. After high school, she went to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, supplementing the small allowance her parents sent her by playing the piano in movie theaters and the organ in church; she also worked as a sales assistant to a milliner and then as a hat designer. With a friend who had ambitions for the stage, McMein moved to New York City in
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