Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Reeves's wife has for years been invalided by asthma, is now living in Switzerland for her health. One son, Joseph Jr., is a capable California artist. The other, William Cunningham, was graduated from West Point last year, is an Army flyer...
...Prince Igor, because the festival was given to commemorate the birthday centenary of Prince Igor's composer- Alexander Porfirievitch Borodin. Soviets approve Borodin's music as vigorous, direct, heroic, with a true Russian flavor unblemished by oldtime Russian melancholy. Alexander Porfirievitch was a sane and optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed...
...what happens to a Harvard Junior when he discovers that his girl has become engaged to another man without telling him. The dialogue is convincing, and the character of the girl is will described. Mr. Ferris' "Attis" is a more ambitious piece of work, concerning the relation between an artist and the conventionality of a Southern town. So described, the theme sounds conventional, but this story is not conventional at all. Mr. Ferris puts his reader rapidly into the middle of the action, almost uncomfortably so, for his artist is such a strange individual that we ought to be more...
...designer. In Hollywood, he was given a job as color adviser to Technicolor Inc. in which Sonny and his cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney later became heavy stockholders (TIME, June 5). Mrs. Kaplan also went to Hollywood, was persuaded by Durenceau she would be a more successful manager than artist. Her first job as manager was to get commissions to decorate Hollywood homes. He painted murals of horses and gazelles for William Haines, a mural for Leila Hyams, decorated pianos for Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Lilyan Tashman. He illustrated Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant and an Anthology of Immoral...
...note, becomes-how often!-progressively less and less himself. The blighted career, the arrested career, the diverted career are, with us, the rule." But he has cold comfort for the pseudo-stoics: "To be, to feel oneself, a 'victim' is in itself not to be an artist, for it is the nature of the artist to live, not in the world of which he is an effect, but in the world of which he is the cause, the world of his own creation." Critic Brooks thinks that U. S. traditions have long since burned themselves out, that...