Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical Art) aided by Director-Producer Hamilton McFadden and a seasoned cast, delivered a play which caused youthful Marxians to applaud for five minutes after the first night curtain, aided in their bravos by seasoned play-goers who knew they had seen a good play...
...employment office, it offers an unusually satisfactory mode of helping a few men over the financial obstacles of higher education. Certainly more attractive superficially than the usual student positions which involve the climbing of innumerable staircases or the washing of many dishes, the orchestra also offers training in an art which is valuable both financially and esthetically in after life...
...voice has in some ways improved. She sang well as the mechanical bird in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. She piped prettily through Mignon. But her big music has been little, the real art of singing something she has never seemed to grasp...
Recently the Six heirs found their inheritance taxes a burden. There were too many paintings. Works of art are heavily assessed in an age where everything is interpreted financially. An auction in Amsterdam was announced. To the auction rooms of Frederk Muller, on the banks of the Amstel, came a host of connoisseurs from all over the world. They came to take away from Holland the treasures that the loving Jan Six had collected. Without a particle of sentiment for the Dutch they gathered for refined looting...
Elmer Davis, on the other hand, is sufficiently master of the art of human speech to reconstruct the converse of garrulous though ancient Hebrews. It seems that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...