Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Equity Association offered the public a grab-bag art show at the Whitney Museum. The terms were challengingly simple. Admission: $100 a couple and take your pick of more than 500 pieces of donated painting and sculpture-some of them by such top-notchers as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Isabel Bishop and William Zorach. The only catch: the art was all untitled and signatures were taped over with adhesive...
...while he, a front-of-the-book-first reader of this magazine, settled down to NATIONAL AFFAIRS. About Denver, he flipped to the RADIO & TELEVISION section, and did a double take. There, in a story about a British Broadcasting Corp. television show, was a picture of 22-year-old Isabel Bigley. "The story said she was good and the picture looked right," remembers Ernie, "so I asked my partner [Cy Feuer] to look her up in London...
...persistent producers trailed Isabel from London to Hollywood, and at last signed her up a few days before rehearsals began. A former secretary, Isabel had been an unknown chorus girl on Broadway. But Guys & Dolls, now a smash hit, has boosted her fast. "She's a find like Mary Martin," said Ernie Martin, "and it all started because I read TIME on a plane from Los Angeles...
...annual Christmas dance for the servants at Buckingham Palace got under way when the orchestra struck up Night and Day and King George VI led Household Maid Isabel Ross in the first foxtrot of the evening. Then, instead of leaving after his usual one duty dance, His Majesty enjoyed two more rounds while Queen Elizabeth, in gold-tinted crinoline and a diamond tiara, danced with her deputy steward and a page...
...blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith, but its every line and highlight was placed precisely right...