Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells, who was on the set most of the time Things to Come was in production, was so delighted that he promptly declared he would concentrate on writing for the screen hereafter. He now considers films "the greatest art," expects them "to oust both opera and stage...
With enormous backing, a nucleus of a company in which one of his brothers (Vincent) is art director and another (Zoltan) a director. Producer Korda last year arranged to attack the U. S. market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building...
...Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a memorial exhibition of La Farge's works...
Barred from last week's exhibition because of his amateur standing was the winner of the Yale Club's amateur art show last winter. To judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head...
...judges awarded four instead of the usual two Altman prizes to U. S.-born citizens. Most important of the Altman prizes ($700) went to Sidney E. Dickinson, conservative portraitist and onetime art instructor, for a curious canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale...