Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Color of a City...
...York City are among the examples of sculpture on display. The most notable of the paintings are the costume designs of the Dramatic Club production, "The Liar," a fresco copy of the School of Botticelli, and cover designs for the Lampoon. There are also oil and water color landscapes, still life studies, and portrait drawings in several mediums...
...important works of the romantic school; Debussy's "Submerged Cathedral" which is a striking illustration of descriptive music, impressive and poetical; and several Chopin numbers, examples of the most idiomatic treatment of the modern key-board instrument. Ravel's "Vaalses nobles at sentimentales" show the modern method of tone-color, and Mr. Whitings's own transcription of Bach's English suite in A minor, originally written for the harpsichord, is a pianoforte rendering of that music...
...American Federation of Arts has prepared a collection of 400 fine color prints of the best pictures in famous galleries, and will exhibit them throughout the country for the benefit of those who cannot travel to see the originals. Reproductions are also available for purchase. The collection is now on display at the Russell Sage Foundation, Manhattan...
...Bliven in effect, "is always asking about newspaper morals. But equally important with newspaper morals is newspaper intelligence. And both of them are changing drastically, dangerously, because of mechanical progress." The telephone and the typewriter have played havoc with journalistic English. High speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure, the electric telegraphic typewriter have all added their quotas to the impersonality, haste and complexity of journalism. They have increased the size of papers, so that all the profit must be made-and often some of the expense borne-by advertising revenues. They have made the production...