Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cocktail Hour (Columbia) relates the story of an artist (Bebe Daniels) who wants to live "the free life." Cynthia Warren is first seen in her studio putting the last touches on an advertising poster while admiring friends ply her with cigarets, drink and music. To the telephone calls of people begging for her work she is disdainfully aloof. Randy Morgan (Randolph Scott) is the only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information...
...Mattern's backers were H. B. Jameson and Hayden R. Mills of Chicago.) A big, blond, curly-headed Texan, onetime trapdrummer, seasoned pilot, Mattern was in the pink of condition. Besides a half dozen oranges he carried two gaily painted vacuum bottles of hot water given him by Artist George Luks. One was labeled "Happy," the other "Landings," "See you in a week," were his parting words...
...Gion was still a fairly young man, but he had been through the War and wanted no more tension; his practice was sufficient and not too exacting. For his most interesting patients medicine could do nothing. Cynthia, who lived just above him, was a young artist of genius who worked out her unhappy conflict into sad clay figures that looked like embryos. Emerence was a beautiful peasant girl from the mountains who looked strapping but whose blood was dangerously thin. Dr. Gion had to advise her not to have her baby, but he sympathized with her when she would...
Where he was born no one is certain, but it was in 1860 and the parents were Elizabeth Holyoake and William King Bottomley. His parents had a pathetic desire to make an artist of him. Horatio ran away to earn his living as a day laborer. He studied shorthand, became a court stenographer, studied law and though never admitted to the bar, used to boast that he was "the best lay lawyer in England.'' At various times he was connected with some 20 or 30 different companies which failed, successively for about $90,000,000, but publishing...
...Brother David married Film Actress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Film Actress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Sister Roussadana married Artist Jose Maria Sert...