Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Album of Early Cantatas and Songs (Isabel French, soprano, and Hugues Cuenod, tenor; Technichord:*10 sides). When 18th-Century Parisian Jean Philippe Rameau took time off from writing the first modern treatise on the art of composition, he composed deft, archaic, but charmingly tuneful music. His cantata L' Impatience, along with songs and cantatas by Monteverdi, Schütz and Thomas Arne, gives French Tenor Hugues Cuenod a chance for some fancy, old-style tenor...
...Walter Bauer, Isabel Whiting...
...whiz promotion scheme to needle circulation, Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine named one Isabel Caldwell McDougal of Greenwood, Miss., "Miss Cosmopolitan." Next issue Cosmopolite Faith Baldwin, one of the judges, twittered: "She hasn't an atom of classic beauty but she's as pretty as spring in the South. . . . She has a certain pixie charm hard to define. She reminds me a little of Helen Hayes...
...Isabel Bishop's paintings have the quality of forms remembered, this was a clearer and more solid memory. The black skirt of one girl and the orange jacket of the other were definite and strong notes in the composition. And not only were the figures classically balanced but their lackadaisical, toe-swinging pose was sharply observed and evocative...
Slender, dark, bustling Isabel Bishop, 36, has her studio at Broadway and 17th Street, hard by Union Square. Such paintings as Office Girls begin with a fast sketch done on the street, followed by a carefully composed etching. Models for her final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...