Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge asked the Senate to appropriate $5,000 for the purchase of an oil portrait of himself to be hung in the White House. The procedure is customary with outgoing Presidents. Hungarian Artist Philip A. Lazlo de Lombo's suave, briskly painted Coolidge portrait, which now hangs in the state dining room, seemed a probable choice. Other famed Coolidge portraits are by Frank 0. Salisbury, "painter laureate of England," for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Soci ety, Manhattan, and by Ercole Cartotto, adroit Italian. The Cartotto Coolidge is soon to be hung in the Manhattan clubhouse of President...
...England. Many a worse play has been produced, but this is not another Street Scene, save in method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds she is in his way, she leaves him, committing suicide by jumping in front of a subway train. It is only an honest play, not a good...
...months ago a poor sidewalk artist of Mexico City strolled into the great cafe La Bombilla, and assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...such a play. "You are the most abandoned woman I have ever known," says Albert to lisa, and she replies, "Abandoned? No one has ever abandoned me!" It is a college quip which serves less as a cause than an excuse for laughter. Caprice is the comedy of an artist, not a farceur, though it contains moments of mediocre farce. The author is a Viennese, Geza Sil-Vara, and it is his first play (adapted by Director Moeller) to be presented in the U. S. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne stroke the velvet and stir the smooth cream of Caprice...
...Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge," said he to a friendly newsman, "is the most gorgeously beautiful sight that can be found in New York. ... If the builders . . . paint the bridge black it will be scarcely visible. ... It will lose...