Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House came Artist James Montgomery Flagg to present Tree-Lover Roosevelt with a gift. It was a poster for the Forest Service, showing Uncle Sam, wearing goatee and something resembling...
Nobody remembers his name but oldtime vacationers at Atlantic City, N. J. ("Playground of the World") say that the resort's first sand sculptor was a young artist who showed up on the beach one day in the 1890's and molded from a mountain of wet sand a lifelike figure of a scantily-clad young woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers...
Nearby Spagnola works another old-world artist, George Spetsas, who was born on the Isle of Samothrace, went to Atlantic City at 19 because his brother was a hotel waiter there. No foreigner is 32-year-old Paul Jones of Pottstown, Pa., whose permanent display, The Spirit of Atlantic City, presents boardwalkers with a view of Neptune taking a good look at a mermaid...
Notes on the cinema would, however, include some mention of the bit part played by Jerome Cowan. As Arthur Miller, friend of both the principals, he keeps the fire hot and the plot going by conclusively convincing the world that Petrov, the great ballet artist, and Linda Keene, dancer and blues singer, are married, though in reality they are not; that is, not until the eighth reel...
...painter's, only real pupil and of whom Goya did two other portraits. He assisted his master in at least one large fresco and left a few works of no great importance. But he had the right personality to make a good subject for the great artist...