Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This work was commissioned by the League of Composers and was originally inspired by the painting of the same name which now hangs in the Worcester Art Museum. Its text, taken from Isaiah, is divided into seven part--each of which is superbly effective through the sheer application of choral tools, without resort to vocal trickery for more dramatic results. It is a significant and welcome addition to a field of music which is too often passed by on the other side...
...Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
...tell me, do you like my style? It is some-what after your own, you know. I learn from what you have written your son Marcus you hold letter writing to be one of the arts. Alas, dear one, it is an art we have lost today. Why? Because we are too busy. For example, Ciccro, should I want to communicate with Mussolini and tell him what an ass he is--even as you would tell Caesar--I need not take a reed pen and write on parchment and thence by messenger to Rome; no I need but take...
...tombstones had risen from a Depression low of $350 to nearly $500. The industry sold 2,734,000 cu. ft. of granite and marble in 1935. Possibly because things looked so bright for the tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge...
...which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou...