Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not satisfied by her explanation that she wanted "the smell of the sawdust." But her future plans told more. This winter she hopes to make the opera Manon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to sing weekly for the Coca-Cola radio program, and next spring to be a guest artist at the Coronation Concerts in England...
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...
...strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...
Last year Cartoonist Goldberg was invited to leave his artistic retirement, continue the late Sidney Smith's Andy Gump for the New York News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected...
...personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those of Gregory Ratoff, neutral. But Adolphe Menjou in his decay is proving himself more than a tailor's dummy: a genuine comic artist. His rendition of the simple, high-minded inebriate is perfect...