Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of fraud, chicane and every art...
Marriage Revealed. Abigail Beveridge, 24, daughter of Indiana's late, great Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge;.and Franz Baum, 44, her German art teacher; in Munich, last November...
...gang of WPA workmen were placidly sandpapering the features of a marble George Washington in Philadelphia's dark old City Hall. Suddenly a hoarse, poodle-haired Italian swept among them, seized their abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning...
Last week Sculptor Donato was again compelled to sally forth in defense of Philadelphia art works when he heard that another WTA crew, furbishing up for the forthcoming Democratic National Convention, was busy scraping down the bronze statues in City Hall Plaza to make them "look like new." Such treatment would remove the bronzes' cherished patina, which comes only from long exposure to atmosphere, rain, dust and pigeon droppings. Tearing off his blue smock, Sculptor Donato dashed from his studio shouting: "This time I am going to give them hell...
...favorite Hamlet. An elegantly slim young man upon whose emaciated face a formidable nose between gimlet eyes suggests the front of a streamlined car, John Gielgud is the 32-year-old great-nephew of the late great Ellen Terry. A product of Westminster, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and several years of British stock, he made his reputation in successive appearances as Romeo, Hamlet and King Lear at London's Old Vic Theatre, branched out as a successful actor- manager in 1934. The most popular matinee idol England has seen in years, he experimented with the screen in Secret...