Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's Chicago Art Institute show carefully avoided any of the extreme schools of U. S. painting, was described by Chicago's ablest critic, Clarence Joseph Bulliet (Chicago Daily News), as "a sedate show of practically unrelieved conservatism." The jury for painting-Edmund Archer, John Steuart Curry, Jerry Farnsworth, Meyric Rogers, Thomas Tallmadge-salved its artistic conscience by giving Mrs. Logan's prize to an unexceptionable if uninspired studio nude entitled Olympia, by capable, hard-working Robert Philipp of Manhattan...
...increased unnecessary surgical interference with labor, with results so unfortunate as to nullify the improvements in maternal mortality statistics which should have been expected from the concurrent extension of antenatal care. Human nature being what it is, the environment of the general hospital has tended to make of obstetric art a sort of surgical specialty in which many an ill-fitted practitioner may essay to shine. The answer is not a return to domiciliary care of normal parturients. Paradoxical as it may seem, the answer is in a greater degree of hospitalization and specialization within the hospital...
...Many U. S. concertgoers are just as confused when they hear Stravinsky's music. Others regard his trick harmonics as a glorious, artistic in novation. A few rank him and his old friend Painter Pablo Picasso, equally well-grounded in classicism and equally able to produce conventional art forms if he chose, as the 20th Century's greatest artistic jokesters...
When Terry (Margaret Sullavan), the bravest little unemployed ingenue living at the shabby Foot-Lights Club, says that she would not go to Hollywood and have her art put up in a can like soup even for an ermine swimming pool, she is not bringing any fresh arguments to bear on the long-mooted question of superiority be tween stage and screen. And when her radical, playwriting friend (Richard Kendrick), having decided after a Broad way success to go West and write for and not about the masses, tells Terry that the theatre is an obsolete art form which...
...impersonation of a girl who at the last moment replaces a famed screen star, who for publicity purposes has condescended to return to show business for one dramatic appearance, suggests a parallel be tween art and life that is likely to confuse most spectators...