Word: coate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the great Chicago Art Institute opened its 47th annual show last week. Many of the artists were there in person as were most of Chicago's socialites and connoisseurs, of whom the most important by far was a dumpy, indomitable lady swathed in pearls, orchids and caracul coat. Wife of the unassuming Honorary President of the Institute, Mrs. Frank G. Logan puts up the money for the $500 Logan prize-one of the two highest awards of the show. It is also Mrs. Logan, resolute opponent of modern art, who has complained most vociferously at the juries...
...played exactly 17 mm. 23 sec. in a General Motors broadcast from Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. 11. was launched last week on another U. S. season. Day before she had arrived from Europe wearing a red scarf and tarn her mother knitted, a grey coat which her father boasted had cost him "nearly $50.''' Declared Father Slenczynski. never reluctant to talk: "I have been her only teacher...
...Sacre du Printemps (1913) which caused such a furor at the Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore...
...BISHOP'S BIRDS -Richard E. Bishop J. B. Lippincott ($15). Everyone who shoots wildfowl legally this year will carry in his gunning coat an etching by Artist Bishop-the three wild geese on the Federal "duck stamp," without which no State hunting license is complete. A tiny fraction of this public will drink their after-shooting toddies out of glasses expensively decorated by Bishop's enamel bird silhouets. In this book are found reproductions of 73 of Artist Bishop's best etchings...
That Mr. Pickwick was not an original creation of Charles Dickens is illustrated by "Maxims and Hints for an Angler," by Robert Seymour. The pictures in this book show a short, pudgy figure with glasses on the end of his nose and with a long tail coat, the exact counterpart of Dickens' famous character. The fact is that Dickens probably derived the idea from the drawings of Seymour...