Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Starting from Oakland, Calif., for the first West-East non-stop continental flight, Colonel Art Goebel last week reached New York, 18 hours, 58 minutes later. Last August, he won the Dole prize for flight to Hawaii...
...scented forever with a sweet, unreal and sticky perfume, built of planks and plush, to house deceptions. Hoboken, N. J., is a squat and smoky suburb of Manhattan, a place where trains load and boats dock, where beery workmen lurch home along cobbled streets and where the world of art is chiefly represented by ancient and execrable examples of the cinema. Why then should anyone want to own a theatre in Hoboken, N. J.? Famed Author Christopher Darlington Morley (Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left) knows, for last week he bought one, the Rialto, of which he said...
...Story. Through three volumes of well-bred indiscretions Prince Genji proved himself master of the delectable art of making love. In the fourth, with old age creeping on, he proves himself master of the art of being betrayed. Kashiwagi, Prince Genji's friend, cuckolds him with his girl-bride, Nyosan. In the fury of discovery Genji plans glorious revenge. But his usual dignity, mellowed by age, prevents him from hasty action, and allows of reconsideration. For it has occurred to him that in his youth he had seduced a concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though...
...Arthur Waley, translator of exquisite Chinese poetry and of the monumental Japanese novel by Lady Murasaki. Translator Waley learned both Japanese and the still more difficult Chinese from native teachers in London. He has never been east of Suez, and yet he is a recognized authority on literature and art of the Far East. By profession Assistant in the Oriental Section of the British Museum Print Room, his favorite diversion is the poetry of Chinese Po Chui...
From elaborate exhibits in museum and department store to window displays in cheap furniture shops, "modern decorative art" has been thrust at last upon the U. S. public. Justification is now undertaken by Paul Frankl, enthusiastic creator of skyscraper dressing tables, who traces origins in Austria, Germany, and, above all, Paris, where dressmakers felt the need of new backgrounds for their simple (but oh so intricate) knee-length frocks. In a spirit of cooperation, the new decorator therefore scraps everything old (the pyramids excepted), and matches modern life with "simple rhythmic combinations of masses," and sharp color contrasts, rather than...