Arts: Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous Gutzon Borglum, cleaver of rocks, carver of mountains, talked to a reporter in Kansas City. He declared that the rancor of the Stone Mountain Controversy (TIME, Mar.. 2 et seq.) boiled no more within him, that he was now about to throw all his energies, his visions, his genius into a great project in—”North Carolina?” queried the reporter. “No, South Dakota,” replied Borglum. With the sculptor was his son, Lincoln Borglum. “Tell the man about Bryan, Daddy,” suggested Lincoln. Hill-Hammerer Borglum then spoke of William Jennings Bryan, related how, before he resigned as Secretary of State, the Great Commoner requested him to make a mask of his face, a cast of his hands.

“He expressed a wish,” said Mr. Borglum, “that some day effigies be made of the casts for the common tomb in which he will lie with his wife, that he might be commemorated as were the old monarchs of Europe.”