Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Levi fought back the only way he knew how. He began painting in the halls a series of frescoes depicting intimate episodes in the life of his landlord...
...long time. Singing & dancing have been customary since 1723, spoken dialogue since 1814. The great joy of every panto player is the matchless exuberance of his audience. Last year Nervo & Knox, two fine slapstickers with 26 years in panto, so worked up their youthful audience against the Baron (Variety Artist Eddy Gray) that he could not speak his lines for the din; when Nervo yelled, "Come on, kids, let's kill the Baron," more than a hundred of them stormed on to the stage and stopped the show...
...attitude towards the Nazis from the beginning was clear. I only wanted to continue a career which I started ten years before 1933. . . . When the Nazis came Goebbels told me that I could stay in Germany as an unpolitical artist. This I did. . . . I've never conducted in a conquered country. I didn't want to follow tanks into other people's countries. . . . Where was the music of Beethoven more needed than in Himmler's Germany? . . . I am no more guilty than a potato dealer who continued to sell potatoes in the Third Reich...
Moonlight & Santayana. Soekarno gave up architecture. But though politics has been his occupation, he has not lost his interest in art. His Batavia house contains one of the finest collections of Indonesian paintings, especially moonlit mountain and jungle scenes. His favorite artist is the younger Abdullah, who painted a hauntingly lovely portrait of Soekarno's present wife (he married her because his first wife bore him no children; by the second he has a young son). When Soekarno was paid 800 guilders a month by the Japs, he used to give Artist Abdullah...
...artist rather than a scholar," says George Santayana '86 in his book, "The Middle Span," harking back to the nineteenth century days when, as a member of the University, he had joined the throng at Copey's reading...