Word: artes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yiddish Theatre, Like many other Jews who have reached artistic eminence, Muni developed his art in close contact with his own race. He was born Muni Weisenfreund in a part of Austria which is now Poland in the little town of Lemberg, which he left at the age of one month and has never seen since. His parents were traveling actors who journeyed from one European capital to another, performing in the ghettos. The nomadic life of the Weisenfreunds took them to London, where Muni went to his first school, and later, when Muni was six, to the goal...
When Muni was 18 he was making an average of $15 a week. He was a success. In 1917 he showed up on Manhattan's lower East Side where he was soon spotted and signed up by Maurice Schwartz of the Yiddish Art Theatre. For seven years Muni plugged hard at his work. In 1926 Sam Harris gave him the lead in the play We Americans. The play was a hit and Muni's future was virtually assured. Success did not change him much. He did not gamble or drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles...
...fill the Museum of Modern Art, France has not only ransacked her best collections but caused even the Bank of France to disgorge a few masterpieces from its ornate salons, sacred hitherto to such connoisseurs as Dr. Schacht. Cabled hard-boiled Manhattan Sunman Henry McBride, last week after looking out from the new Trocadero Palace: "Surely the view one gets from this terrace is one of the most glittering and stirring prospects now to be obtained anywhere in the world...
...Louis, controversy raged over designs by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles for a $60,000 fountain in Aloe Plaza across from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked...
...history. During the March quarter the No. U. S. motormaker was tied up in knots by the youthful United Automobile Workers of America. During the June quarter GM was harassed by almost daily wildcat strikes unauthorized by the union. Both GM and the union are freshmen in the art of collective bargaining, and for both the second quarter proved an expensive education-for GM in profits, for the union in prestige...