Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the special Wedding Number of The Illustrated London News arrived in the U. S. It contained 39 different pictures of Princess Marina; 28 of Prince George; 94 of relatives of bride & groom, wedding presents, scenes about Westminster Abbey; a full-page design of the bride's wedding gown material; 17 pictures having nothing whatever to do with the wedding...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
...peasant had smashed up his find. But Digger Campbell went ahead to unearth greater treasures: a Greek theatre with an 80-ft. stage which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed a male and a female figure, representing Autumn and Harvest, reclining on a couch where they were served by a personification of Wine. "Among the finest antique work ever discovered," cried Professor Campbell...
Before the public was admitted to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International, generally considered the most important annual art show in the U. S., the jury went through the galleries and awarded the $1,500 first prize to Peter Blume's colorful surrealist design entitled South of Scranton. The award moved the U. S. Press to great bursts of sarcasm, but the Carnegie Institute directors bided their time (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week the show closed. All who visited it were given ballots and asked to vote for their favorite among the 356 paintings exhibited. With a total of 1,920 votes...
...scornful, if inaccurate, sniff of young modernists that in its 108 years the National Academy of Design has never produced a first-rate work of art. Neither, for that matter, has it ever produced a first-rate scandal. But last week it came dangerously close to it. Boiling with suppressed excitement, President Jonas Lie summoned newshawks to his studio, fed them cheese snaps & Scotch whiskey, and announced that for the first time in its existence the Academy had just expelled a member, "for conduct considered prejudicial to the Academy...