Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guggenheimer is not formally required to do anything for his money. Guggenheim money, however, has helped many a first-rate artist produce many a first-rate work. Stephen Vincent Benet wrote John Brown's Body on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. Louis Adamic wrote Native's Return on another in 1932. Criticized for giving assistance to big names, the Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism...
Mallorca is called Miramar, Lawrence is Marius, Coward is Andrew Jordan. Marius has two sons, one of whom despises his father and can think of nothing but his future career as a great trapeze artist; the other, Saul, has left home several years ago but is coming back to do his last filial duties. On the boat from Marseilles Saul meets Andrew Jordan, a "brilliantly second-rate," phenomenally successful playwright. In their very first conversation Andrew's shiny sophistication crumples before the hypnotic sincerity of Saul; by the time they reach Miramar Andrew is in a dither...
...cheap and did his skillful best to make a Galatea of her. He moderated her voice, calmed her taste in clothes, formed her manners, taught her to strike classical attitudes. When she was presentable he let her be seen. His friends all agreed she was something to look at. Artist Romney went wild over her, painted her in dozens of poses. After a few years, careful Mr. Greville handed her over to his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, who thereupon settled his nephew's debts and made him his heir...
...judges awarded four instead of the usual two Altman prizes to U. S.-born citizens. Most important of the Altman prizes ($700) went to Sidney E. Dickinson, conservative portraitist and onetime art instructor, for a curious canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale...
...Manhattan recital last week, appeared for the first part of his program in a piped vest and cutaway, changed during intermission to bright blue breeches, shiny riding boots and an opened-neck shirt with wings on the pocket. In his first regalia he was an earnest formal concert artist, exhibiting his smooth ingratiating voice at its best in a long sustained aria from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. Worthy also of the imposing Crawford sideburns was Bach's My Peace I Give Unto You, in which he was solemnly assisted by a group of youthful choristers from St. Thomas...