Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed British artist, Augustus John, sailed for the U. S. on the Aquitania to remain there two months. He proposes to finish his portraits of Mrs. Stephen Clarke and Mrs. Sheffield in New York, and then will go to Buffalo to finish Mrs. Goodyear (rubber). He is also to do Thomas Fortune Ryan, Painter John is considered second only to John Singer Sargent (TIME, March 3.) He was reported to have left London, not in his customary plaid necktie, but in a brown...
camera. Virtuous Liars. One of those artist pictures in which we are to believe that a married woman seeking an artist's career in New York can win fame fastest if she poses as a widow to the denizens of baldhead row. Her scamp husband is put out of the way of her second marriage to the hero, by a shot...
...luxurious 250-foot steam yacht. He went along. Beebe was director of scientific work. Dr. William Morton Wheeler, distinguished Harvard entomologist, was a member of the party. There was also a physician and a surgeon, a game-fisher, a curator of dredging and diving, a chief hunter, a marine artist, a photographer and cinematographer (John Tee-Van) a preparateur, a taxidermist, a scientific artist and a historian, the last two of whom were women, Isabel Cooper and Ruth Rose. A few of the chapters are by Miss Rose, but the bulk of the volume is Beebe...
...with tales of intrigue, art and heart-rivalry, even jealousy. Certainly the authoress has no mean opinion of her own accomplishments. "I insisted upon singing the Mad Scene," she writes, "in which I amazed the critics, and astonished some of my warmest admirers." And again: "I am a greater artist for what that Winter brought me. Probably my experience helped me to sound the note of passion in my various interpretations, made me more the dramatic singer...
...author can make things happen, as the intense reality of the sordid Mr. Schreiner's call at the Kemper-Merritt's palacial home, and the dramatic accusation against Patty for cheating at bridge show, but is as a descriptive artist that he excels. His amazingly vivid and never trite phrasing makes the reader actually see the characters; his carefully constructed and cleverly told hits of action hold the reader with their nicety; and best of all, his delicacy keeps him within the bounds of decency, however immortal his theme may be. "The Gay Ones" is simply yet very well written...