Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood last week, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded to two amateur cameramen the prizes which, for owners of miniature movie outfits, correspond to the awards which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship...
...many a year the Valentine Gallery on Manhattan's arty 57th Street has devoted itself to the more advanced of the socially acceptable left-wing artists. Because famed British Critic Paul Nash has referred to him as the successor to Matisse and Picasso; because he has been called a master of impressionistic line; because the people whom Hostess Elsa Maxwell invites to her parties have decided that he is "too, too divine,'' the chaste grey walls of the Valentine Gallery were last week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover...
...Artist Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, 40 years ago. At Ohio State University he was a brilliant bedraggled student. Few of his friends knew that at the age of eight his left eye had been shot out by a playful playmate with an arrow. Through the Peace Conference, Thurber served as a code clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. In 1925 he was Nice editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago...
...neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...
...compatriots were patriotically keeping themselves to themselves until a sudden drivers' strike marooned them in a little town. For two days they waited, enduring their enforced semicolon, gradually revealing to each other the meaning of their unfinished sentences. Julian was a bachelor, suave, middleaged; John, a talented young artist, was his son, though unaware of the fact. They amused themselves by observing their fellow travellers: a Jewish salesman, a secretarial spinster, an amiable widow, two girl chums, a pair of honeymooners. One by one their travelling disguises were discarded. The spinster, frantically trying to catch a boat at Corunna...