Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life's president nowadays is Clair Maxwell, 38, aggressive sportsman-executive, able brother of able brothers.* But the astute "War Chest'' scheme was not conceived by him. Life's vice-president nowadays is tall Langhorne Gibson, onetime oarsman, son of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, who has worked for the magazine some 40 years, is now board chairman. the scheme was not Gibson-generated. of Life is Norman Hume Anthony, in last year from Judge as a resuscitator. But it was not Editor Anthony who thought up this smartest of stratagems. man whom an admiring fraternity in applauding was broad-browed...
June Day, excitable Manhattan and Paris night club entertainer, went to Manhattan's Independent Artists exhibit (TIME, March 10) to see her portrait by Alfred H. Maurer. Indignant at the impressionistic rendition of her charms, she seized a knife from a bystander, slashed at the picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked...
Chester Morris's parents were in vaudeville for years. His brother Gordon writes plays. His brother Adrian and his sister Wilhelmina do short turns and musical specialties. He tried to be an artist for a while, then worked in vaudeville as a Magician?"Mysterious Morris"?copying Thurston. Augustus Thomas, who was an old friend of his father, got him a part in The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore. After that he worked in various stock and Broadway plays. For some reason he has been more successful in pictures than anywhere else. Some of his films: Alibi, Woman Trap, Fast Life...
Leaving Cambridge last March, Professor Clark, accompanied by his wife, who has served as artist and general assistant, journeyed to Japan, China, and finally Australia, where they spent most of their time...
...branded by other critics as mere facility or the superficial finesse resulting from laborious routine, is an absolutely essential basis for all fine art worthy of the name. He finds in the late George Bellows, famed for his dramatic depiction of prizefighters, an example of a modern U. S. artist whose art is securely grounded in this respect. In his new book of essays, The Painter's Craft, published a month ago by Scribner's, Critic Cortissoz persuasively explains his emphasis on technique. Says he: ". . . who shall say where the 'manual dexterity' leaves...