Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the St. Louis City Art Museum announced with pride that it had acquired an Egyptian bronze statue of a cat for $14,400 from Manhattan Art Dealer Joseph Brummer. Same day, St. Louis newspapers carried a pathetic story about the eviction of a family of eight for failure to pay $15 a month rent. The conjunction of these news items proved too much for the editorial sense of the St. Louis Star-Times, which published an open letter to the cat informing it that its "visit" was ill-timed. Wrote the Star-Times...
...refusal to welcome you, Dear Cat, is not to be taken as a personal slight, but merely as our protest against spending taxpayers' money for ancient art objects . . . with a relief crisis in our midst...
...art of designing beautiful clothes for women is no longer exclusive with a dozen dressmakers in Paris. During the past year U. S. designers have been well publicized, and a notion has got abroad that Paris is losing initiative in setting fashions. Downright U. S. citizens who rather hoped so were thoroughly disabused last week when U. S. buyers and wholesalers flocked into Paris like homing birds for Fashion's greatest circus : the annual autumn openings of the great couturiers...
Died. Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (real name: Alexeyev), 75, great Russian stage director; of heart disease; in Moscow. Co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and its director ever since, he revolted against classical conventions, emphasized realism, truth, emotional sincerity, charged his actors to "live the part every moment." He was equally proficient as actor, author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter...
Last week his paintings, unique, strongly composed and immaculately clear, were praised as classic U. S. works of art by an enthusiastic biographar...