Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show how the unwashed ladies of the Renaissance looked at their best, Mrs. Thomas has sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked out to the ears, primps in a mirror, turns her back on the Spanish Armada...
...Moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., stalked into the White House, disclosed to Franklin Roosevelt a large canvas from the brush of Frank Salisbury, British artist who last winter painted the President's portrait. On the canvas was a handsome picture of George V, R. I., his lion and his unicorn, a gift from Artist Salisbury to the President on behalf of the American people. Said Sir Ronald: "As the King's Ambassador in America I have often been impressed by the feelings of affectionate respect which His Majesty's personal qualities...
...entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name of a lady whom he has sketched in the nude, selects another name at random which happens to be hers. From that point on, experienced cinemaddicts are not likely to derive much suspense from watching the artist's serious...
...pronouncing their name as if it were French. In 1908 Chorus Master Giulio Setti offered her a place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when I knew he would be my impresario." Nothing daunted, Mme Savage readily embraced life in the chorus, which she says is happy because "you mix with the greatest artists in the world." By those artists Mme Savage came to be loved...
Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...