Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woefully lacking in class consciousness, Artist Ganso would rather paint a pair of buttocks than all the breadlines on the Bowery. For years his artistic idol and best friend was Jules Pascin. Artist Pascin specialized in painting naughty little girls in pale misty colors with a spidery delicate line...
...that Pacific island was outraged by Artist Gauguin's habit of pasting obscene postcards on his bedroom door, of insisting on public recognition of his native mistresses. In constant trouble with French officials and the police, he moved finally to the Marquesas Islands, built and worshipped a clay idol of his own designing, died, half-blind...
...scurrying around to the narrow stage entrance where one of the few to be admitted was Louise Jones, a gaunt, middle-aged blind woman from Kansas City who plays the violin, runs a beauty shop and keeps scrapbooks of Grace Moore press clippings. Miss Jones had never heard her idol in opera before. But she had sat through 40 showings of One Night of Love, a record bettered, according to Grace Moore, only by a Welshwoman whom she met in London last summer. The Welshwoman, aged 76, had seen the cinema 76 times...
...Myself, I have nevaire beene to college, but I hav beene kicked out of many schools," continued the dark haired idol of hot-cha movie fans, who was educated in convents both in this country and in her native Mexico. "College dramatics are the ideel place for a boy to develop for the screen...
...date adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School, which Wallace Reid made as a silent picture in 1921. It is a revealing commentary on the progress of cinematic fashions that the principal figure in the current version is a personage as unlike Matinee Idol Reid as it would be possible to find: Pantaloon Joe Penner, whose alarming ability to simulate the appearance and behavior of a congenital idiot has rapidly made him one of Hollywood's most admired comedians...