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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Helen Clay Frick private collection of works of art there has recently come to the Fogg Museum a loan of some thirty paintings. On account of the number and diversified character, they are exhibited, at least for the present, among the Museum's other pictures. Many of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

The third portrait is that of an Old Scotchman, seated at ease by his books. Raeburn has put personal character in every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

One of the principal obstacles to presenting opera successfully in English has always been the high-flown, stilted character of the translations. Most pretentious operatic theeing and thouing can be blamed not on opera's original librettists but on their 19th-Century English translators. For many years Cambridge Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Operas in English | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Black, barrelhouse cabaret singers were not long in converting Frankie's exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Errata | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

But What a Life is so long on character portrayal that it is terribly short on plot, never quite masses its laughs through mounting situations, merely sprinkles them brightly at regular intervals. As slight of build as the kids it treats of, What a Life is, like them, young, lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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