Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson...
...Chicago Art Institute's large and brilliant International Watercolor show,* visitors congregated around Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front...
Persistent association with the smart money is suspect in an artist; so is a highly developed faculty for showmanship. Odd thing about Dali is that these qualities are apparently all of a piece with his art, yet his art has importance. Every Dali show since his first in Paris ten years ago has interested critics because 1) the art of painting needs fresh subject matter; 2) psychoanalysis has focused attention on dreams; 3) Dali seems able to recreate their haunting confusion, scale and illumination...
...long time jazz, the blowsiest of the arts, has needed to have its hair combed and its socks pulled up. Not until last week, when a scholar from the other side of the musical tracks took time out to tidy up the whole subject, had anyone done much sound thinking or writing about one of America's two native art forms (the other: the animated cartoon...
...numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near the Art Shaw of the same