Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Song 5. Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibez 6. Intermezzo from "William Ratcliff" Mascagni 7. Soprano solo, "Un bel di" from "Madame Butterfly" (Mrs. Littlefield) Puccini 8. Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco 9. Selection, "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 10. Radcliffe Choral Society a. The Heathen Song b. China Lady c. Radcliffe Hymn 11. Waltz, "Artist's Life" Strause 12. Hungarian Dance No. 5 Brahma
Died. Mrs. Nellie McCormick Flagg, wife of James Montgomery Flagg, the artist, in Manhattan, following a short illness...
Georges Desvallieres, famous French painter, here to serve on the jury of the Carnegie International Exhibition, does not believe that America has yet found a "master artist." Says he: "The works of Americans that I have seen . . . in your museums . . . seem to have been done to please the amateur. The soul [of America] is not yet expressed...
...whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
...American dramatic art as well as the American spirit, go see the circus. There you will find the supreme expression of America's delight in size and speed, in superlatives and hyperbole. Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before presented to the human eye. Its tent is "the greatest stretch of canvas ever...