Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARTIST AMONG THE BANKERS-Will Dyson-Dutton ($2). Diatribe against the banking system by British Etcher-Cartoonist Will Dyson, with illustrations superior to text...
Smoky (Fox Film), based on the best-selling romance by Cowboy Artist-Author Will James, traces a mustang's career in sentimental detail. In this unusual Western, the horse is the protagonist, the cowboy deus ex machina to save him from the glue-factory in the end. Even the love interest centres on Smoky. Critical of the first sketches the rancher's arty daughter makes of his horse, the cowboy finally succumbs when she produces a good statue...
...life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this she draws into the bent bodies, the downcast eyes, the melancholy despair and hopeless resignation of her subjects. With compassion she makes...
...Artist as Old Alan
...than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers will follow him up his winding stair. Now he writes Words for Music Perhaps. In the old days he certainly would have given the music too. But Yeats, too subtle an artist to have lost all his cunning, can still write memorable verse, though "those dancing days are gone": Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts...