Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
...will soon have a new cathedral, California-style. Its cost, announced last week, was unexpectedly modest ($1,100,000). Other features were characteristically impressive. Unique item: a 195-ft.-long painting of Calvary by Polish Artist Jan Styka, said to contain 5,000 figures. Location: the Hollywood-serving, super de luxe convertible graveyard, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park (where it will replace the "Tower of Legends," a landmark since 1924). Denomination: none...
Unlike earlier College jazz programs, which usually featured a single name artist backed by student players, Leverett's concert brings half a dozen professional jazzmen to fill in the background music...
...harried bloodhound, Ray Milland is as surefooted as ever. Laughton falls to with relish on the great chunks of deep-dish villainy that the script feeds him. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton, offscreen) does a good bit of broad comedy as an emancipated artist with four children and no husband...
Along with the Lord Chancellor (Viscount Jowitt) and Sir Stafford Cripps, Queen Elizabeth herself had attended the posh but chilly opening (there was a stokers' strike). The 68 oils and 76 water colors on exhibition brightened the gallery air and thawed most critics' reserve. "What other British artist of this generation," asked the Sunday Times, "could fill the Tate . . . without a hint of monotony?" Added the Spectator: "Perhaps the most consistently fine water colorist of the 20th Century...