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Sharply in contrast was the sophisticated style in which Tamiris interpreted primitive themes, ranging from Negroid to Spanish. Least successful was her own composition, the "Gris-Gris Ceremonial," based on African rites of propagation. Happily it was the only one in which she joined with the Bahamans. Alone, Dancer Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dark Wiggling | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...individual works which illustrate this thesis have been selected from among the great contemporary masters. Braque, di Chirico, and Gris are some of the names on the list. Although the emphasis of the exhibition will be kept on contemporary painting and sculpture, a fourteenth century Siennese Madonna, Russian Icons, and Negro sculpture will also be shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABSTRACTION CENTRAL IDEA OF ART EXHIBIT | 11/28/1931 | See Source »

...Austrian named Karl Naumestnik, 38, last week walked across the English Channel from Cape Gris Nez to Dover. The direct distance is 20 mi. but currents carried the walker out of his course. He made the crossing in eight hours. On his feet he wore a pair of water skis. Two other Austrians tried to follow him but grew weary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Water Walking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Channel | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Channel swimmers take off from Cap Gris Nez, France. Last week the Breton fishing trawler Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus was wallowing past Cape Gray Nose when Captain Jean Marie Bougrad espied a body that did not swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loewenstein Found | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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