Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gentlemen, the New England Repertory has really been kicking the gong around of late. With a flying swan dive off the deep end, they have produced "Adam the Creator" by the Czech "enfant terrible" of the theatre, Karel Capek. The general keynote of the script is that God made an awful mess of things during those first seven days--but then, again, is there anyone in the audience who thinks he could do a better...
...Officers' Emergency Reserve. Born in St. Petersburg, he thought it "reasonable" of Russia to wish her own former Baltic provinces to remain Baltic, not German. As for himself, "my home is in darkness, my income in jeopardy, my hopes for a career non-existent." Evelyn Waugh, creator of the bright young thing, observed with suspicious blandness that "the war is an extension of our normal habits of life; fighting has been a universal human activity and will remain...
Another example of the newspaper artist at a high peak of excellence is Clifford McBride, creator of "Napoleon and Uncle Elby." His ability to express real with by men as of the drawings themselves, together with his subtle control over line in order to bring out character, can be equaled by no other artist in this particular field. It is not my intention to establish these men as great artists; they are, however, worth special notice because they are craftsmen who can be placed in a category well above that of the simple illustrator. It is well to remember...
Died. Robert Wadsworth Edgren, 65, sports writer, cartoonist, creator of Hearst's controversial Spanish-American War atrocity cartoons, "Sketches from Death"; later sports editor for the late legendary Joseph Pulitzer's old New York World; of a heart attack; in Del Monte, Calif...
...Arthur Train has been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...