Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceased running; the ticket windows were closed in Ausable Forks. Rogers, Arnold, Harkness, Peru, Salmon River, Cliff Haven, all the way to Plattsburg. And that might have been the end of passenger trains in the Ausable valley had not there soon returned from a trip to Greenland small, baldish Artist Rockwell Kent. When Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader Loree and his whole D&H system. This he did with...
Divorced. Lady June Inverclyde, London music hall artist, from John Alan Burns, Lord Inverclyde (Cunard Steamship Co.); in Reno. Lady Inverclyde testified her husband insulted her friends, "was never entirely sober," said she would marry Lothar Mendes, cinema director. Lord Inverclyde remained in Scotland, shooting grouse...
...Smart Artist Sert contracted to do the Waldorf job year ago, received approximately $100,000 for it. He is full of honor in his own land: his work hangs in Spanish cathedrals, in the Royal Palace at Madrid, in Barcelona's municipal building. He did the murals for the Joshua Cosden mansion at Palm Beach, now the home of Mrs. Hugh Dillman...
Subject of the paintings is the marriage of Quiteria from Don Quixote. Forced into narrow, high panels, the kicking, squealing characters of Artist Sert literally stand on each other's heads to fill the space. Celebrants at the wedding feast include leaping acrobats, hoary strong men, bull tamers, jugglers, drunkards, surrounded by great billows of silver and claret-colored drapery. Other than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more...
...Artist Sert's first wife was a great-grandniece of Composer Franz Liszt. She accompanied Stylist Gabrielle Chanel to Hollywood last spring. The present Senora Sert was once Princess Mdivani of the much-married Mdivanis of Georgia (South Russia). (Brother David married Cinemactress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Cinemactress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Brother Alexis married Socialite Louise Astor Van Alen...