Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gained his post in the Mayor's office. The salary was moderate. The prices of the singing lessons that he continued to take were high and he had to support a mother and several younger children. His ambition increased. He met Lauri-Volpi, Metropolitan Opera Company tenor. This artist gave him intoxicating phrases of encouragement. But what was there for him to do when he had no money...
Died. Captain Derek A. Shepper-son, 26, Royal Flying Corps veteran (son of Claude Shepperson, R. A., Punch artist), who lately advertised Lucky Strike cigarettes by writing their name in smoke against the sky, at Blackwood Field, near Nashville, Tenn. His plane collided with a tree as he landed after a demon-station of skywriting...
Three large murals by James E. McBurney, Chicago artist, were installed in the new Federal Bank and Trust Co., Dubuque, Ia. They represent Dubuque, the French trader, being shown the lead mines of the region by Sauk and Fox Indians; the first steamboat going up the Mississippi, watched with awe and premonition by aborigines on the bluff; the old ferry which bore the pioneer settlers in their " covered wagons " across the great river near Dubuque...
Four hundred years ago court painters were accomplished diplomats. Today, at the court of capital, the artist sits on industrial relations advisory boards. Gerrit A. Beneker is the first and perhaps the most able practitioner of the new profession of Industrial Art. He tells how it happened in a paper on Art and the Industrial Problem in Scribner's Magazine for September. Many will remember his virile War and Liberty Loan posters: Sure, We'll Finish the Job and Work As You Would Fight. In his youth Beneker visited Homestead and other towns where steel has left...
...Pachmann, pianist of legend. This man for many years has been one of the world's renowned musicians, renowned alike for his great musicianship and his personal singularities. His whims, his spirit, his drolleries alike have made him an ideal figure of the eccentric and high talented artist. Now at the age of 75 he demonstrates that his years have not robbed him of his vivacity. Articles in the press laid playful stress upon the circumstance that de Pachmann candidly informed the ship news reporters who interviewed him that he was the world's greatest pianist, that beside...