Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept. 16, 1929). Rolland's scholarship is a mine from which he does not care to emerge. Says he: "My connections with my generation are broken...
...fear for business and liquidation by wearly holders of stocks, having passed through the period of depression (Winter), gives signs to the initiated of the dawn of a new era (Spring), with its many opportunities to the alert and thoughtful to participate in the coming Bull Market- the creator of new Millionaires, as in the past; so by prompt and wise action, NOW, in the springtime of this Market, will satisfactory results be obtained...
Cartoonist Walter Disney, 30, thin and dark, gives his collaborators no publicity. He is the originator and so far as the world knows the sole creator of Mickey Mouse's doings. Eleven years ago he was working on the Kansas City Star, drifted to Hollywood where he produced pictures combining people and cartoons. When the sound device was invented he originated his famed rodent, devising a method to make the Mickey Mouse musical scores synchronize perfectly with the action. It takes from 6,000 to 7,000 drawings to make one reel (650-750 ft.) of Mickey Mouse film...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...
Easily could Cartoonist Crosby afford the $1,455 expense of sounding his clarion in the World. Skippy and his colleagues- Cuthbert, Sooky ("Always belittlin' "), Yacob, Aunt Gussie, Uncle Louie (the glassblower)-gather over $100,000 a year for their creator...