Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical comedies, from the results of an abdominal operation performed at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance...
...play which was produced for the first time in London in 1924 with great success. The scene is laid in the Bagdad of the fifteenth century. Adventure, intrigue, and romance are woven into a story which combines rare wit and humor with high emotional power. In a setting of color and life is placed Haroun at Raschid, the famous Caliph, and Hassan, a poor confectioner...
There are probably no pictures in the exposition which can ever be thought of as great masterpieces and there are some that are utterly commonplace; but there are very many which are decidedly pleasing in color and design and handling, and as a whole it is an unusually gay and cheerful show, one of the most entertaining that has been seen in Boston for some time. Fortunately too, a setting has been provided which has permitted hanging the pictures with little undue crowding, and they are well lighted...
...other hand, if one is sufficiently sensitive in vision and feeling, it seems as if there would always be all sorts of things in the aspect of objects about us worth recording--color, form, pattern, and that these can be treated in such a way as to give us pretty paint surfaces, harmonious and sparkling color and agreeable design, things which, hung on the walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty...
Many of the paintings are noticeably of the present generation in their use of subtly-varied grays, with occasional accents of stronger color, in reaction to the intense broken color used by the impressionists to express a naturalistic effect of light. As compared with most American and British painting done in the same vein, there is a pleasant lightness of touch in most of these pictures. After our over-seriousness, even the obvious "fooling" in examples like the "Europa" and the "View of the Seine" are a delightful relief...