Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artists, like all of us, must make a living out of the work they do. . . . An artist's season is planned long in advance. Each year he plans to give a definite number of recitals and these are "booked" or contracted for in advance by local managers who agree to pay a stipulated...
...this method the artist knows pretty well in advance of the season about how much his gross income will be and on the basis of such calculations he incurs obligations and budgets his own financial commitments for business expenses and otherwise. This plan contemplates that local managers become entrepreneurs. They attend to all the necessary local arrangements, sell the tickets and keep the receipts over and above their expenses. They engage in business for profit...
Occasionally a local manager incurs a loss. It is one of the risks of his business. . . . What is an artist to do when without any advance notice that his fee would not be paid, he arrives in town for the recital and finds the money isn't there...
...century behind the times, a few steady-fingered men and women of good family have gone on painting miniatures, with the result that last week the American Society of Miniature Painters was able to hold its 35th exhibition in Manhattan. Months ago each artist bought little slabs of ivory, preferably from tusks of a live elephant. The ivory was smoothed with pumice stone, soaked in water until pliable. When pressed stiff and flat each slab was cut for size. Omitting the gum, glycerine or honey the ancients used to make paint stick to chicken skin, mutton bone, vellum or copper...
Summoned to the telephone, Maude Phelps Hutchins, artist-wife of Chicago University's youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was told: "This is Postal Telegraph. We have a message for you." Then three girls in the telegraph office sang the message over the wire: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, "Happy birthday, dear Maude, happy birthday to you! - from Robert." Delighted, Mrs. Hutchins remembered that it was also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next...