Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Locomotives Watering' there are the lyricism and unashamed romantic abandon which this type of subject evokes in this artist; human beings may be vulgar, pretentious, obvious, but a locomotive is always elegant, chic and glamorous...
...Artist Marsh has followed the recent revival of interest in mural painting. Paintings shown last week were not on canvas but in tempera on panels coated with gesso. They had an obvious architectural quality. Best were "Swinging Carrousel," a tremendously forceful study of figures whirling on a Coney Island merry-go-round, and "Gaiety Burlesque," an etching of bloated faces leering at a Callipygian beauty on a runway, that was listed in the Institute of Graphic Arts' 50 prints of the year...
...decided to become an artist and took one lesson at the Art Students' League, to the surprise of his father, Maurice Barrymore, who considered that in taking any lessons at all he had displayed unprecedented diligence...
...latter's name in larger type in all press advertisements except in Hearstpapers). But the combination contributes nothing to Miss Davies' reputation as a comedienne, nor to Mr. Gable's conquests as No. 1 U. S. cinema lover. Polly (Miss Davies), a pert, saucy trapeze artist, is badly hurt during her act and taken to the nearby house of a young bachelor rector (Mr. Gable) who shelters her during her two-month recuperation. Mutual love develops. Mr. Gable's parishioners hold their tongues until it is discovered that Miss Davies was seen spending some time...
Before she left for Europe this winter, Soprano Mary Garden behaved in a fashion unusual for a concert artist. She volunteered to cut her $3,000 concert fee. "Butter & eggs are cheaper," she said brusquely to her new managers, "why not concert artists?" No foolish virgin, Mary Garden was doing of her own accord what many another artist is being forced to do. Last week with the booking season at its height it was evident that artists' fees are well on the road to deflation. A dozen music salesmen were on the road selling singers, fiddlers & pianists...