Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading his rhymes for bread: "I was told by the Babbits on every hand I must quit being an artist or beg. So I said: 'I will beg!' ... It was an act of spiritual...
...COPPER Box-J. S. Fletcher- Doran ($1.75). Caught in a snow-storm on the Scottish Border, a young artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
...GOLDEN FLEECE-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($2.00). The cycle of Greek legends that concern Jason and the rest of his varsity crew most admirably retold for children by a poet and artist...
Engaged. Gordon Stevenson, the artist, to Miss Candace Hewitt, a granddaughter of the late Abram S. Hewitt, one time Mayor of New York...
Married. Miss Louisa Ruth Hoar, step-daughter of Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Representatives and granddaughter of the late Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, to Christopher La Farge of New York, grandson of the late John La Farge, artist, and great-grandson of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Among the guests (in Washington) were the President of the United States and Mrs. Harding...