Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weary but affable in the Cabinet room, President Hoover sat for his portrait to Douglas Chandor, scion of Hungarian nobility, private soldier for England throughout the War, poet,* linguist, painter-extraordinary for TIME.? In the Green Room, Mrs. Hoover sat for Artist Gleb Ilyin, Russian emigre, now popular in California...
Suave Judge Corrigan does not often find himself in embarrassing situations. He has been a magistrate for 23 years, Chief City Magistrate for the last six months. A socialite, he lives on East 86th Street. His wife was once married to Artist Ben Ali Haggin...
Cecilia Agnes Young, daughter of Artist Mahonri Young; and Oliver Ingraham Lay, architecture student at Yale...
...Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause, she was nervous, tense. In public...
...Chester Dale, Maud to the world of art, is the small, tawny-haired, vivacious daughter of Artist Frank Murray, onetime dramatic editor of the New York Herald. She paints landscapes and murals, collects pictures, writes books about them. For the past two years a handsome series of yellow-bound quartos on Modern Art have been appearing over the colophon of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Maud Dale wrote two of these books, one on Picasso, one on Modigliani. Booksellers know that not Alfred Knopf but Maud Dale is paying the publication cost of the whole series...