Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tallulsh Bankhead's glory reflected upon Tallulah Bankhead. Most commendably, however, Miss Bankhead's star is made to shine, not through the familiar expedient of excluding capable support, but rather through the skillful writing of George Kelly, with the maximum of adaptation to the peculiar talents of a peculiar artist. The actress is cast as an actress, and that leads to all sorts of dainty nuances. Sometimes Miss Bankhead acts the conscious actress, sometimes the unconscious actress, and sometimes she just acts...
Since there is no possible support for a would-be trapeze artist except a thin pipe suspended eight inches from the roof, men on the fifth floor were stumped for an explanation. One observer was inclined to ascribe the phenomenon to an advanced knowledge of the principles of levitation...
...many of them eating as they walked, have passed into the oblong Italianate Representatives' Lounge and gaped earnestly at a small, dark, wiry man painting furiously in a faint odor of rotten eggs, while the walls slowly blossomed with mule skinners, Mormons, dancing Negroes and Mississippi boatmen. Artist Thomas Hart Benton last week had finished, and some of the most important murals in the U. S. were ready for their formal unveiling...
...longtime favorite of Manhattan art critics, Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo. 47 years ago. Legislatures are no novelty to him: his father was a Congressman, the great uncle for whom he was named was a Senator from Missouri, stalwart defender of President Andrew Jackson. After years of study in Paris when he imitated every known school of French painting, Artist Benton suddenly found himself in the U. S. Navy during the War, began to develop his well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract...
...gigantic panorama which was one of the outstanding hits of the Fair, now lies in a warehouse waiting a permanent home. Missourians suddenly remembered that Tom Benton was a native son, urged him to come home and do a job of work for the State House. Artist Benton agreed to decorate the Representatives' Lounge...