Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn's most famed Dougherty uses his first two names only, Walter Hampden. Actor Hampden's Brooklyn-born brother Paul, able artist, long since moved to Manhattan...
...Peter P. Ott of Manhattan for his soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case...
Many will learn with surprise that Paul Revere probably furthered the cause of the Revolution more by his engraving of the "Boston Massacre" than by his famous ride. Among others of the Colonial period Peter Pelham, the stepfather of Copley, was perhaps the greatest artist with his mezzotint portraits, a fact which few people realize...
...effects of mighty tragedy, of the inscrutably deep character of the chancellor, all are obtained without the use of clumsy mass-action: no wielder of rhetorical thunders. Meyer concentrates, impresses with fine delineation rather than overwhelms with sheer quantity and force. His is the method of the finished artist: but he does not let artistry crowd out the living appeal of his work, and the latter has by no means lost its vigor in the English Version...
...killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled to the stars!'' Liberty's article said she died of a dose, not an overdose, of chloral hydrate, not heroin. The distinction: heroin is an out law, habit-forming narcotic. Chloral hydrate is a non-habit-forming, much-used hypnotic...