Word: jon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second U. S. name was that of Hollywood's Jon Cowley, who composes when he is not doing the whistling for Walt Disney's cinema cartoons. What struck listeners most about Composer Cowley's tricky "Crazy House" Suite was its orchestration, and that was not by Composer Cowley...
...afford to miss. It is a masterpiece of photography and direction. By the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty," it deals with the South Sea Islands of bygone years when only Nature and the Catholic Church dared to interfere with the French Penal Code. The hero (Jon Hall) is cast as a native symbolic of all the natives, incredibly strong and brave, free as a bird and incapable of understanding restraint. His arrest, for striking a white, and his brutal captivity are climaxed by a superhuman escape, and on top of this comes "the wind that overturns the earth...
...very highest standards. However, by the testimony of many prominent educators, the prints in general meet well the purpose for which they were intended and some, at least, are of really fine quality. If any further evidence of this is needed, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Jon Corbino and Thomas Benton have expressed themselves as pleased with the reproductions of their own paintings. Mr. Benton, in fact, used our copies of his pictures for his own Christmas presents...
...smart innovation by Jury Chairman James Chapin was the grouping in separate galleries of conventional commissioned portraits and of the paintings submitted by jury members and faculty members. Notable among the 308 paintings displayed were Bathers' Picnic, a group of big, pink women in breezy undress by Jon Corbino; Sheldon Street, a Utrillo-like landscape by Francis Speight; The Mirage, an industrial waterfront with wild smoke reflections by Ernest Fiene; Charlie Ervine, a Maine portrait by Andrew Wyeth (TIME, Nov. 15). Awards: for the best picture painted in oil, to Eugene Speicher for Marianna; for the best portrait...
Hurricane (Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey; TIME...