Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upkeep on Appleton Chapel last year drew $1000. from the University treasury; on Phillips Brooks House, $750.; on the Fogg Art Museum, $3000.; on Peabody Museum, $1500.; on Widener Library, $6000.; on the Law School property, $5000.; on the Engineering Echool, $3790.; and on the School of Public Health building...
Skeleton plot: a college youth, on the eve of marriage, is informed that one of his old extra-campus acquaintances has given birth to a child of which he is the father. He therefore proposes marriage to the brat's mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...
...Manhattan prominent artists cudgelled their imaginations for the perfect perfume bottle. Art, business and chemistry had effected a triangular combine which was expected to benefit all three. The Art Alliance of America had sponsored an invitation competition for perfume bottle designs in the modern manner. This was held at the instigation of Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Palmer of Brooklyn, who donated prizes of $500 and $200. Mr. Palmer is president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, manufacturing chemists, famed for toothpaste, milk of magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver...
Rather more "literary" than the commercialized publisher and critic of the U. S., Mr. and Mrs. Woolf belong to a group of individualists who still take art seriously: Orient-student Arthur Waley (TIME, Aug. 27), Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher...
...fair, long the scene of the inconsequential activities of characters in novels, is about to receive the leader of the only art in which personal supremacy is incontestably provable at one blow. Second in national importance only to Colonel Lindbergh, Mr. Tunney feels that this is the best way to acquire the liberal education which heretofore time has not allowed him to pursue just what led him to feel that the epitome of world culture is contained within this glittering district is not clear. Perhaps Iris March told...