Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vronsky & Babin, like their friends Bartlett & Robertson, are married. Babin is tall, dark, 29. His wife is 28. They met in Germany where they both studied under Artur Schnabel. In 1931 they first went on tour, married two years later in London...
Poets and painters have swarmed over Mexico, inordinately praised its crude-colored landscapes, its dark, slow-moving Indians, its Aztec remains. They were so impressed with Mexico's cultural heritage that they helped Mexicans make the most of it. In painting, no one has done more to work out a native style than Diego Rivera. In music, no one has done so much as his good friend Carlos Chavez, the swart young mestizo who can make a full orchestra suggest swishing gourds and shrill clay pipes. Excitement ran high in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week when Composer...
...wrote the Symphony of Antigone because French Poet Jean Cocteau needed music in his "contraction" of the Greek tragedy. The Symphony does not describe what happens in the play, aims only to be elemental and barbaric. Listeners found its odd harmonies impressively elemental, shivered at the wailing strings and dark, discordant brasses...
...twinkled around the ring, dark eyes snapping, white coat curried and brushed to a glistening alabaster (see cuts), Spicypiece looked every ounce her name. The crowd cheered and clapped when the judge, towering George S. West of Chestnut Hill, Mass., looked her way, held its breath while he eyed and handled the others. The suspense was soon over...
Daughter of an Irish father and Hungarian mother, Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wis. 49 years ago. At the Manhattan Art Students' League in 1905 she was dark, handsome, known to every one as Patsy. But soon she gagged at the sort of painting she was being taught, went off to earn her living in various advertis ing agencies, later became a public school art supervisor in Amarillo...