Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Custom requires the hanging of a President's portrait in the White House immediately upon his retirement or death. President Coolidge's picture was in place before March 4, 1929. When Harding died in 1923, Congress promptly appropriated $2,500 for a White House portrait. A British artist, Edmund Hodgson Smart, submitted a picture he had painted from life. One delay followed another. The Fine Arts Commission rejected the Smart portrait. After more delays Artist Francis Luis Mora of Gaylordsville, Conn, was commissioned to do another portrait of the late President, using photographs to get the likeness...
...Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth...
...Cape Cod motored over to Dennis, Mass, last week for the opening of "The Cinema." Cape Cod's latest, most up to date playhouse, designed by Alfred Easton Poor, Manhattan architect. All eyes sought the ceiling which displayed the first mural painting ever undertaken by bald, busy, noteworthy Artist Rockwell Kent. Not only is "The Cinema's" ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times the size of Tintoretto's "Paradise" walls...
Further complications arose over a gang attack upon Reporter Leland H. Reese of the Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
...properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket-("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing all Pythian affection Tom nearly slugged Jack, refused henceforth to speak to him. When Jack...