Word: exoticism
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In Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an...
"But to return to the exotic in art," remarked Miss Rambova, whose Georgian South Russian type of beauty is most exotic, "it was my first love. I followed it in my dancing and in my designing.
But all such delightfully exotic meditation must end in stark reality and when I once more resume my weary way (at 10:45 o'clock) I find my steps directed toward the portals of Memorial Hall, Here Mr. Keogh, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Starke, are holding an inquisition in English...
Turandot, Pbccihi'5 posthumous pseudo-Chinese opera (TIME, Nov. 29), has already been sung seven times in the first half of the Metropolitan Opera Company's current season, and last week had taken receipts of over $100,000. The music, hailed by critics as less than Puccini'...
Another formula, as effective as that of Mr. Kalish, is its opposite -to reproduce in art the shapes or surfaces of things that are totally unfamiliar. This is the formula which supports Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs, portraitist. Mrs. Jacobs has always painted celebrities. She used to paint familiar celebrities; her picture...