Word: batik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilfred helped finance Eva Gauthier's musical education. She went to Europe. Intelligence and imagination helped her make much of a voice neither opulent nor particularly wide of range. She married a Dutchman (since divorced), went to Java to live. In Java she acquired her liking for Batik gowns and heavy oriental jewelry which seemed to go with her shiny black hair, her curious, slow-spreading smile. When she arrived in the U. S., she had added Javanese folk music to her repertoire...
Yachtsmen, debutantes, landscape painters and batik dyers who summer on Cape Cod motored over to Dennis, Mass, last week for the opening of "The Cinema." Cape Cod's latest, most up to date playhouse, designed by Alfred Easton Poor, Manhattan architect. All eyes sought the ceiling which displayed the first mural painting ever undertaken by bald, busy, noteworthy Artist Rockwell Kent. Not only is "The Cinema's" ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times...