Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol on Jan. 3, they will find Representative De Priest gone. But their racial embarrassment will be more rather than less because they will find sitting squarely in their Demo cratic midst another Chicago Negro by the name of Arthur W. Mitchell. They may object to the color of their new col league's skin but they can find no legitimate fault with his politics...
...finale of Kid Millions is an elaborate sequence in color, showing chorus girls on skates spinning around a gigantic ice-cream freezer. The best songs in the picture, written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, are "Okay Toots," and "An Earful of Music." Sample jokes...
...grateful couples. Twenty-seven babies bear all or part of the name Nelle Brooke Stull. For every visitor she has a copy of a booklet about the Widows' & Widowers' Club. Excerpt: "Mrs. Stull is a veritable bundle of energy, pretty, vivacious and possessed of magnetic eyes, the color of sapphires." When Mrs. Stull discovered that Mr. Kabelac and the Countess could be mar ried at once, she proudly gave the bride away, left for Atlantic City "where 500 of my boys and girls will be gathered to cele brate my birthday." Best news on Mrs. Stull...
...tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. When...
Margaret Bruening of the New York Post: "A stunt canvas. ... It has no apparent artistic value-its organization is nil, its color unpleasant." Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: "An extraordinarily fine piece of . . . painting. The composition seems flawless; the color orchestration, subtle and convincing." Second prize ($1,000) went to Germany's Karl Hofer for an apathetic picture of three scantily clad males. U. S. Artist Sidney Laufman took the $500 third prize with a pleasant, unexciting Spring Landscape. The Allegheny Garden Club gave André Derain a $300 prize for a vase of roses...