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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portraitist | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Straits closed in 1914 which Eng land wants kept open in war time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Lady Vanishes (Gaumont British) exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock, Eng land's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form. The ingredients of Hitch cock pictures rarely vary much. They include a beautiful English girl, a some what bewildered hero, several international spies, a code and a journey, preferably by train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...changes in enrollment in several of the largest courses are noted here. For other courses see page four. Biol D (A) 206 220 279 216 260 Econ A 399 435 734 619 596 Eng A (A1) 745 580 552 549 569 French E(2) 534 548 323 357 346 Geology 1 269 273 136 147 155 German A 499 465 264 267 283 Gov. 1 594 536 495 493 437 History 1 631 828 714 656 571 Math...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGEST COURSES | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Liang Ssu-Ch'eng, distinguished Chinese architect and archaeologist, and Professor Josef Albers, of Black Mountain College, will be visiting lecturers next year at the Department of Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecturers Appointed | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

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