Word: architect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French architect collected a few scraps on the life of La Tour, but could find none of his paintings. It was not until 50 years later that a German scholar named Hermann Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...John Payne and Gloria DeHaven called off their second trial separation in 3 ½ years, "because we love each other and . . . .our two children." Songstress Ginny Simms-because "we still love each other"-considered dropping her two-week-old divorce suit (their first in nearly three years) against her architect-husband Hyatt Dehn...
Mississippi-born Composer Still's music has a homespun quality, but it is as varied as his own background of Scottish, Irish, American Indian and Negro ancestors. He tries to avoid repeating himself ("after all, an architect wouldn't want to design the same kind of house all the time"). Making movie music (at $250 a day) ceased to interest him because he felt that he had to do "my work in my own good time, and in my own good...
...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's advice to 500 members and guests of Chicago's Art Directors Club, in annual meeting: "The first thing you should do is forget that you're artists . . . you're only the hands of the machine and you know there's nothing in America that can stand up against the machine. If you were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything...
...piece of unreal estate in Connecticut-a pleasant-looking, rump-sprung old house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon, the building trades. Blandings saves his neglected job by the skin...