Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First stage in the reverberations were interviews with Swimmer Jarrett, her husband, Crooner Art Jarrett, whom she married in 1933, and her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Holm of Brooklyn. Said Swimmer Jarrett, who was offered a Ziegfeld Follies job at 16, worked for nine months as a Warner Brothers cinemactress, quit when a scheduled swimming role endangered her amateur status and hence her chance to defend her Olympic title. "I've been nightclubbing . . . for the last three years. . . . The night before the final tryouts I was up all night partying with my husband. . . . I've never made any secret...
...girl that the two most important things in life were to paint and to be independent. Laura tried to draw from early childhood. Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons...
...subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
...youth, Henry Oppenheimer went into "the City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking firm. A generous and kindly Jew whose friends called him "Hen Opp," prosperous Mr. Oppenheimer soon began to acquire majolica, medals, coins, intaglios, objects of antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase from the Heseltine collection. Cultivating the friendship of art experts like the National Gallery's Director Sir Charles Holmes, who could never understand how "a man of such essential goodness...
When the War broke Speyer Brothers went out of business and "Hen Opp" retired, made no more money, bought little more art. With Zeppelins over London in 1917, Sir Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from...