Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Art can be an emetic for the smug and a warning to everybody. Seldom has such art been concentrated so deliberately with-in four walls as in an anti-war exhibition at Paris' Galerie Billiet last fortnight, called L'Art Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which...
...confused orchestration of Manhattan art galleries last week two flute parts and a vigorously bowed violin made lyric music...
...stirred up the town by pointing out how silly the State Capitol murals looked, a criticism to which the State Assembly stiffly replied: "It is deemed that such mural paintings truly depict and symbolize the history of the State. . . ." He gave a show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin and piping voice made him popular with Wisconsin students. Question: How did all this affect the painting of a Kansan who six years ago put Kansas...
Every Day's A Holiday (Paramount). In the peculiar idiom of show business, Mae West's art comes under the head of umph. This quality is expressed by sinuous gyrating and prurient murmurings. That this sort of thing will make money is well established. Actress West's last recorded cinema earnings (1936) were $323,000, about as much salary as Bethlehem Steel's president, Eugene G. Grace, and the chairman of its board, Charles M. Schwab, draw down together. That umph sometimes shocks the public is established...
...were trouncing Wisconsin and Texas respectively, Stanford was playing a two-night series against Southern California (dubbed the "University of Indiana at Los Angeles" because its entire first team and four substitutes are former Indiana high-school players). In the first game Captain Hank Luisetti and his able teammate, Art Stoefen, who is a cousin of onetime Davis Cupper Lester Stoefen and No. 2 Stanford pointmaker, lived up to expectations, helped drub Southern California, 64-10-54. Next night Luisetti, suffering from an injured eye, scored only 13 points, and Stanford was beaten...