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...Pennsylvania State, Monmouth, University of Oklahoma, Denison and Rochester, the winners in other sectional contests. Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third. Not for sweet singing alone is Pomona famed. Knowing tourists come from all over California to see its huge ogival fresco of Prometheus by the one armed Mexican Muralist Jaan Clemente Orozco...
...feel that sculpture is my profession," said pleasant Grandmother Wiggin. "It has given me quite a thrill to have really created something."- Hearst's San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") last week took notice of that city's cultural life by reporting the completion of a fresco by youthful Artist Victor Arnautoff, onetime pupil of Diego Rivera. On the wall of his studio near the edge of the Telegraph Hill art colony Artist Arnautoff, a sociable fellow, had painted the likenesses of 23 of his friends grouped about the seated figure of a nude female model...
Died. Gardner Hale, 32, fresco painter and interior decorator; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Santa Maria, Calif. A Harvard graduate and son of Prof. William Gardner Hale, first director of the American Academy in Rome, he decorated many mansions in Europe and the U. S. in true fresco in the early Italian manner, was best known for his murals in Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., Manhattan Cloud Club. He also carved totem poles...
...Fresco painting is an untransportable art. Frescoes are part of a wall. They are painted on wet plaster with water color paints. So that they could be moved into the gallery at all, these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...
...defence mechanism of Chicagoans begins to operate and they wish to turn the subject of conversation away from politics and gangsters, one of the safest and happiest topics they can bring up is wonderful season of summer opera at Ravinia on the North Shore. There, in an all, fresco theatre amidst a sylvan park, stars from the Metropolitan and other leading companies sing nightly before large audiences. Ravinia is about 20 miles from Chicago, but the perfection of the music and the beauty of its setting lead thousands to travel there regularly by motor or train...