Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Leon Bakst, famed Russian: stage-designer, painter. He died, after a long illness, in Paris where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. While adept in formal painting, he won his greatest fame with his scenic and costume designs for many brilliant ballets produced in France, Russia, England...
...Life," said Leon Bakst, "is long, and Art is play. Painting can be good only when it has been great fun in the doing...
...Died. Leon Bakst, 58, famed Russian painter and stage-designer; in Paris, after a long illness. (See Page...
...identical in the two magazines. Asked to distinguish a difference, few readers point out that the Cosmopolitan's are of slightly greater fame and salary than the International's?Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same?"high-life" escapades, "low-life" escapades, apartment-house romances, love at first sight ?all manner of Tillie...
...plenary session of the Red War Council in Moscow, M. Frounze, who appears to have superseded Leon Trotzky as War Lord...