Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life of an Artist. In Phoenix, Ariz., hospital attendants ministered to Doris Elaine Edwards, who had thrown herself into a new dance routine and wound up inside the bass drum...
Novelist (Message from a Stranger) Marya Mannes, another Town Hall debater, was shocked. "Dickens is a creative artist," she snapped, "and Mr. Capp is a conveyor belt." The only good thing about the comics, said Mrs. Mannes, is that the most popular strips are in the most irresponsible papers, and serve to keep people from reading their editorials...
Although Yale's set artist, Peacock, seems to have shifted into high gear, getting 20 points against Trinity Wednesday night, the Varsity high command feels the Elis' can't possibly equal last Saturday's one-out-of-two shot percentage. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD YALE Hauptfuhrer rf Lavelli Rockwell lf Nadherny Prior c Joyce Gannon rg Redden Brady or Crosby lg Peacock
...sharp and funny drawing. The drawing has lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John Tenniel, are the subjects of three books published last week in England (by Art & Technics Ltd.). U.S. readers, familiar with only one string of each artist's bow (like Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland), will find the drawings a wonderland of surprises...
Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the first important British artist to make a living from book illustration. His father had been a caricaturist, and by the age of twelve, George had a job etching plates and filling in details for him. His firsthand knowledge of London's low life was to enrich Dickens' Oliver Twist for generations of readers (Cruikshank's Fagin, G. K. Chesterton once remarked, looked as if Fagin himself had done it). Few could recall Cruikshank's later illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin or the series of etchings entitled simply The Bottle...