Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been "Notes and Comment," which leads off The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. Last week's column, best & saddest of them all, was devoted to Manhattan's most popular mythical character, the top-hatted dandy (portrayed, in the full pride of youth, by Artist Rea Irvin) who on the first cover of The New Yorker, and every year on its anniversary issue in mid-February stares through his monocle at a butterfly...
Died. Alfredo Codona, 43, onetime world's No. 1 trapeze artist, onetime husband of famed trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last...
...scaffolding, jazz dancers, bright lights and detached female contours, the Stars & Stripes appearing over his right shoulder. Not on exhibition were any of Grosz's brambly line drawings of Nazi Jew baitings and miscellaneous bestialities which won him, besides an international reputation, the special hatred of Herr Hitler. Artist Grosz now lives quietly on Long Island's Little Neck...
...cracker competition. showed a slight gain in the second quarter, though a poor first quarter pulled down earnings for the six months to an indicated ,400,000. For the first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
While Miss Millay's Liberal character despairs of reviving liberalism as a political force, she gives the lines which seem to ring most with her own conviction to the artist, John...