Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trial. The jury which hopes either to convict or to clear Messrs. Fall and Doheny before Christmas is composed of typically average U. S. citizens-a steamfitter, an artist, a cigar store clerk, an expressman, etc. Most of them, when asked if they knew anything about the oil scandal, said, "Yes, we have noticed it in the headlines, but never looked into it deeply enough to form any definite opinions...
...covers admired by Subscriber Pease were drawn by Artist Samuel Johnson Woolf.-ED. Mysterious Uncle...
...what was then "modern drama." His Vor Sonnenaufgang, (Before Sunrise), 1889, inaugurated and gave impetus to the new German dramatic movement which, unlike that of other lands, is still pressing on to new and violently original achievements. Like Sudermann, Hauptmann subsided as a great creative artist about 1910, though only last year he published the much talked of satirical novel Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (The Isle of the Great Mother) ; and only last week his new Dorothea Angermann had its premiere in Vienna...
...this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which she is subjected by the experimenting male. The artist-scientist becomes conscious of the female only when the woman-object threatens to fight him on his own premises, yelling "bloody...
Shaw might be accused of being mercenary if financial terms were the only ones for which he cared. But true artist that he is he has something to say about who shall mime his characters. Tunney would do very well, but there is in addition to a hero a villain. And the villain a the author has his way and this author usually does will be acted by the unfortunate Mr. Dempesey Shaw's kownness is remarkable; but if memory serves correctly he has other motives than aesthetic ones. He had a wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight...