Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed by the 1930 census. The Associated Press quoted Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, president of the Housewives League of America: "Does the woman active in business or social service as a lawyer, doctor or artist, who employs a housekeeper, necessarily belong in the leisure class? Men who take that attitude (and most men do) date themselves as thinking of modern housekeeping in terms of the hoopskirt age. That's what Mr. Morgan is doing...
...Hofmann was touring again, this time as a full-fledged artist with a technique that surpassed Paderewski's. At 60, his powers are undiminished. his energy strong. He played in Europe all last autumn, plans to give 30 U. S. recitals this winter, make a South American tour next spring. Other years he has spent more time in Philadelphia, where he is the director of Mary Louise Bok's Curtis Institute of Music. There he takes a few private pupils who speak of each lesson as an inspiring experience. One lately complained: "He shows you what...
Married at 25, Artist Parrish settled in New Hampshire, contracted typhoid fever, had to move to the Adirondacks and finally to Arizona for his health. To intimates he admits that the particular rocky gorges that he has been putting in his imaginary landscapes for years exist in reality 50 miles beyond Phoenix where the desert joins the Bradshaw Mountains...
...Paganini theme. Works by Raval, Albeniz, and Chopin complete the list. It is, of course, Mr. Smeterlin's execution of the works of the last named composer which has brought him his greatest fame, but whether he chooses to play Chopin or Ravel, he is always a magnificent artist who is well worth hearing...
Most Mexican artists with whom the U. S. is familiar are amiable bohemians who never leave the Federal District of Mexico if they can help it and who cover vast acres of plaster with humorless protests against the bitter plight of the masses. Artist Hidalgo hates parties, is intensely serious, neither drinks nor smokes, works ten hours a day, owns only one suit of clothes, and has traveled by ox cart, automobile and burro in every state in the Federation studying the Indians of his land. Professionally he is a humorist. His little wax figures, never more than six inches...