Word: attilio
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...Donna Mary Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda's delegate, Murray Silverstone-sat down in Hollywood to pick a boss. Favored candidates were Pickford and Silverstone. Instead the owners elected Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini...
Each of the five Bronx brothers works on his own jobs in the Bronx house. Only on big jobs do they work together. Only Attilio, long separated from his wife, now lives in the house. The other brothers arrive early in the morning. Work begins with pointing-machines, chisels, mallets, electric drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks...
...Attilio is a heavy, ruddy, boisterous, rich-voiced Italian with a grey brush mustache, tousled hair and oyster-shaped ears. His relations with people are whimsical and kindly. He rises at 6 o'clock, does the marketing, eats but once a day, at the great noon banquet. He has taught and housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller...
Though the Piccirillis usually work together as "stone-masters," Attilio stands head and shoulders above his brothers as an individual artist. A classical conformist, he is a master of the human form. His figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting...
...Attilio's first design for the Italian Building's glass panel Mr. Rockefeller thought a shade "too servile." An honest workman, Attilio redesigned it, eliminating two shoveling workmen and putting in the motto in Italian, "Art is Labor, Labor...