Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Pidgeon as Nordoff is the perfect artist--highly emotional, moody, egoistical, but a boy at heart. Ruth Weston plays Mrs. Nordoff with such charm and mature talent that she runs off with the play. Glenn Anders is given all too little to do, but succeeds in playing a manager who doesn't cavort about with the extravagant boisterousness we have been forced to suffer from the run of managers, performing the role of Nordoff's manager and man Friday with quiet charm which is a grand relief from the extravagant boisterousness which most players lend to such a part...
Last week Editor McAndrew found a subject to his taste in the cover of the Sept. 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Artist Norman Rockwell had depicted a young mother turning her unwilling son over to a hatchet-faced, spectacled schoolmarm, switch in hand. All the characters were dressed in costumes...
Later, the emphasis changes and technical problems of outdoor lighting, atmosphere, and open air occupy the artist. The many etchings and lithographs of street scenes, landscapes, boys bathing in a river on a bright summer day show this shift of interest...
...spectator is conscious of the drabness of the milien and the smallness of the figure in proportion to the setting. Since the artist wanted to emphasize class and mass rather than the individual, the workers are not strongly characterized. This phase of Liebermann is illustrated by such etchings as the Weavers or the Net Menders...
...Another artist, a true follower of the modern impressionistic school, handed in a few pictures which, at first, baffled members of the Guild as to which side was up. Luckily, the signature was legible, providing a clue...