Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monopolized by no country or race. Little Switzerland will receive five degrees, half as many as Germany; Denmark gets two as does Japan; the United States leads with fourteen followed by England with twelve. All fields of human knowledge are covered, at least indirectly. Science is heavily emphasized, but art, music, literature, law, history, finance, commerce, each presents at least one specialist. The famous universities of the Old World will send faculty members to Harvard, and among those of the United States are California, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Yale...
...Godfrey quit the Art Students' League before the end of his second month. He did not want to be a little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German...
...Godfrey went to see it in March, thought it was the least impressive painting in the show. He was vastly surprised and delighted when the Montclair (N. J.) Art Gallery asked to borrow it. A little later the Montclair people wrote to say that his picture had disappeared from the show. Last week the news came out. Of the Academy's 278 paintings, many of them by famed artists, 25-year-old Rob Godfrey's portrait of Anneliese had been the only one picked for purchase by the great Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...Pennsylvania Colony and later as first U. S. Ambassador to France, he knew the political bigwigs of England and Europe, was highly esteemed by many an 18th Century intellectual. Franklin also found time to sit for an astonishing number of portraits, became in his own right a respectable art patron. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition, billed as "Benjamin Franklin and His Circle," which included, along with some 350 works of art, such memorabilia as Franklin's coat & breeches, and the great man's Pennsylvania Fire Place...
...Singing Kid" Al Jolson gives another singularly uninteresting performance. Jolson's line is extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times...