Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such material as her basis, Dormer Creston has constructed a biography of Maric Bashkirtseff which is a mingling of tears and laughter, joy and deep tragedy. Such was the life of this youthful and ambitious artist. From her earliest days, which Miss Creston describes in a light and whimsical yein, to her later life, Maric Bashkirtseff demanded of the world, and life itself, all that it had to offer...
Because he is president of the National Academy of Design, successful Artist Jonas Lie thought it would be diplomatic to send a landscape, priced at $2,500. So that was also on hand with more than 1 ,000 other exhibits by more than 400 exhibitors, when the Society of Independent Artists ("No Jury, No Prizes") opened its doors for its 21st annual show. In 1917 when Artist John Sloan and a few friends founded the Independents' Show it filled a vital need. The National Academy was neolithic in its conservatism, few dealers would handle the men who were attempting...
...fourth floor of a six-story apartment house in Manhattan's midtown East side, the beautiful naked body of a 20-year-old artist's model was found stretched dead on a bed. Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
Wearing a pink negligee to advantage, the backstroke artist claimed that all training should be left to the individual. "Personally I train hard for two weeks and then take a break." She bemoaned a hangover during the interview, hastened to add that extra rehearsals after her show, not any connection with the miscellaneous cocktail and whiskey glasses around the room, caused her present discomfort...
...story is transparently thin, and the acting is uniformly bad. Miss Moore, as an opera star deported by the quirks of the immigration law, who gets back to the United States by marrying Cary Grant, a wandering artist, is utterly unconvincing. Perhaps the worst scene we can recall, not only in this picture, but in all we have seen this year, is that in which Miss Moore plays fairy godmother to a particularly unpleasant crowd of yelling children by singing an inane song in her strained, professionally cheery manner. The rest of the cast, Aline MacMahon, Cary Grant, and Luis...