Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From the opening scene of Faust's studio, where the pale, ascetic student, wearying of his search after truth, calls upon the arch fiend to aid him, the audience is carried through a bewildering array of scenes, each one a master-piece. Scenic artist Frank King has worked unceasingly for two weeks past and professes himself satisfied with the result. The electrical effects form a very large part of the production, and these are adequately supplied by Electrician Murphy...
Stage Manager Edison and Artist King more than kept the promise made the public in regard to effects and scenes, while Director Jackson showed some superb work with his chorus...
Stage-Manager Edison and Scenic Artist Frank King are preparing surprises without number for the spectator's eye, and Stage-Director Jaxon has many new things in the way of stage business which he is working earnestly to develop...
...century there were many stories about Sir Thomas Gawain, some traced directly from French source, some imitations and some indigenous to the English soil. The poem of "Sir Thomas Gawain and the Green Knight" is only French in its materials, for it has been worked up by an English artist of genius. Unfortunately, this poet, though second only to Chaucer in his century, is unknown. The whole poem contains the highest artistic, religious and ethical purpose. It is written in a more northern dialect than Chaucer's. The metre is a combination of alliterative metre and rhyme...
...Story was also a talented artist and musician, besides being the author of several books and poems among which is a biography of his father, the "Life and Letters of Joseph Story...