Word: highbrowed
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...serving ginmill blues to highbrow audiences, Gershwin made a lady out of jazz. For this he was richly rewarded in his lifetime; royalty checks for his works (an estimated $100.000 a year at least) still exceed those of most of his living contemporaries...
...difference between "commercial art" and "fine art" is not what it used to be. Many artists now do both kinds of work. One important reason: many an advertiser has discovered that highbrow Art can be harnessed with lowbrow Merchandising...
...Larry Adler can be highbrow on the harmonica or Andres Segovia on the guitar, what's wrong with an accordion? To prove there was nothing wrong, a slight, pretty accordion player with gold loops in her ears took the stage at Manhattan's staid Town Hall...
...carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
...produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...