Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will play three sonatas, one by Brahms, one by Back, and one by himself, accompanied on the piano by Sigismond Stojowzki. Georges Enesco is one of the most famous of the modern Roumanian composers and one of the world's foremost violinists. Sigismond Stojowzki is an equally well known artist at the piano...
...Scribners ($2.00). Edward Eaton's maternal parent was known in her family as "dear Mother." She was a sweet, soft and pious woman, whose sweetness drove one son to follow the sea, whose softness bred moral degeneracy in another, whose piety did its best to force Edward, an artist of sorts, into the clergy. This jauntily unpleasant book is an attack upon a type of woman to which the term Victorian has often been applied, always inaccurately, since lust, ignorance and bigotry are not the peculiar property of any particular period...
...selection of the best students justifies itself only when all the other students have been cared for according to their needs. You can raise up an aristocracy of culture, as a sort of flower of society, but it must flower out of society, not be separated from it. An artist like Poe or like Edward MacDowell seems tragic in his loneliness because so few of as countrymen had at the moment anything like the equipment for appreciating his genius. To develop isolated specimens of culture would be a silly ambition, even if it were possible. Of course each mind should...
...magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless...
Died. Maria Thompson Daviess, 52, artist and author; in the National Arts Club, Manhattan; of heartdisease...