Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venerated axiom of criticism is the theory that the pass of time invariably sifts good pictures from bad, destroys the latter, and holds up the former to the admiration of succeeding generations. It is a comforting theory. It convinces the connoisseur of his good taste, and solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene...
Into the ocean at Biddeford Pool, Me., plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
Married. Sylvia Thompson, 24, English author of the "Hounds of Spring " (TIME, March 1) ; to Theodore Dunham Luling, U. S. artist, at Warnham, Sussex. Both were once students at Oxford...
...Henry O. Tanner, with the white artist Sargent, represents the best America has produced in painting...
...American of all products, the movie, with irresistible authority. Germans have made several of the best motion pictures in history (The Last Laugh, Siegfried) and this latest sample is of unfailing excellence. It is not a new story, telling as it does of the pretty girl, the old trapeze artist, and the young trapeze artist who weaned away her love. It is a magnificent sample of the new German treatment, which depends chiefly on economy. It compels attention through simplicity. Emil Jannings gives his usual masterly performance...