Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect, iconographer, president of New York City's Art Commission, member of the New York Public Library Board, is as long, as ascetic, as elegantly bearded as an El Greco cardinal. One day in 1934 his long face lengthened further when he came upon an artist in the Public Library earnestly measuring certain unfilled panels on the third floor. The artist told him that the Public Works Art Project would like to fill these spaces with some murals. Mr. Stokes said pessimistically that he would speak to the board...
...members of the board, Mr. Stokes found, did not believe that there were any distinguished painters working for the Government. But as PWAP was replaced by WPA, as the Art Project acquired more & more prestige,-he gradually began to bring the board round. Last year a young WPA muralist named Edward Laning finished an immense mural for the dining room of the Ellis Island immigrant station. Mr. Stokes contemplated its lusty, full-fleshed figures, its skillful gathering of groups, told the board that Edward Laning...
Last winter, while balletomanes gasped in the sidelines, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo split itself neatly into two rival ballet organizations. To one of them, newly backed by several midwest socialites including Yeast-Tycoon Julius Fleischmann under the name World-Art, Inc., went famed Choreographer Leonide Massine. Also to be drawn under the World-Art aegis was the Monte Carlo Ballet of Monte Carlo. To the opposite camp, sup ported by Prince Serge Obolensky and cohorts of Manhattan socialites, went rangy Colonel de Basil, a great deal of scenery and the right to produce most of the important ballets...
...that the constellations of Universal's new universe had collided. De Basil, who had not personally signed any agreement with Universal, denied flatly that any merger had taken place, claimed that he could not speak English and had not understood the terms of Universal's proposal. Universal Art promptly sued de Basil, only to find, in court, that de Basil no longer owned the scenery and production rights of the de Basil Ballet, but had sold them to a new organization, Educational Ballets Ltd., in order to escape his creditors...
Three weeks ago, Universal, reduced again to World-Art, Inc., was starting on a new scent, and was preparing to sue Educational Ballets. But Educational Ballets, backed by Baron Frederic D'Erlanger, jumped the gun and opened a season of ballet at Covent Garden with the original de Basil ballet's No. 2 choreographer, David Lichine, as director. The flittery world of the ballet having sprawled into another grand écart, World-Art announced that it would open this week across the street at Drury Lane with Massine in charge. Meantime Ballet's forgetful and forgotten...