Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GAY-Evelyn Scott-Smith & Haas...
Authoress Scott likes a big canvas. In Migrations and The Wave, she filled a panoramic picture of the Civil War with hundreds of figures, a meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...
...Gay was a small-town only child, brought up in the late 19th Century tradition of fearing God, honoring her parents, seeing, doing, knowing no evil. But Eva wanted to know what it was all about, wanted to be something better than a carefully cultivated small-town girl. She dabbled in books, woman's suffrage, radicalism ; when the War gave her the chance she went to France as a nurse. Meanwhile Hans Haaska, Missouri doctor's son, was finding his painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister...
With her tongue ever so slightly in her cheek, Mrs. Chester Dale, collector and authority on French painting, helped organize four months ago an exhibition of the paintings of the late Alphonse Bouguereau, barroom decorator par excellence of the Gay Nineties. For all their technical slickness, the correct perspective for looking at a Bouguereau nude was always obtained through the bottom of a 16 oz. beer glass. Critics in the chill light of a formal art gallery were not impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition...
...Gay Divorce"--Shubert, 44th Street W.--Fred Astaire and Claire Luce dance to the well-known tunes of Cole Porter. A delightful evening if you don't mind trite plots...