Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Active Painter Clivette is in attendance at the show, slender wiry, electrical, his hands like names. To illustrate motion, he will balance an umbrella on his goateed chin before a canvas. "After 40 years of tossing knives into the air you learn light and motion," says...
...goodness, isn't it lovely," cried his mother, Widow Jane Young, in Toronto. "George has always been a good son, light-hearted but never frivolous. He likes porterhouse steak and tea." Wrapped in blankets in California, the son said: "I want to bring mother to California...
...middle-sized men-welter-weights-looking small in the big ring at Madison Square Garden, under a motionless pour of white light like metallic milk, scuffed and bobbed and perked and knuckled. One was named Joe Dundee, the other Eddie Roberts. A month ago Roberts knocked Dundee out in one round. Wise people did not think he could do it again. The betting was even. Well did little Dundee show that he deserved this confidence when, after taking a count of eight in the fourth round, he came out of his corner like a loose propeller, pounded Roberts bloody until...
Artist Clivette has lived of late in Greenwich Village, running a curiosity shop called Soul Light Shrine. "Another of those crazy Village clubs," said passersby. But in one of these clubs of late, George Kellman, owner of the New Art Gallery, saw suddenly before his face a canvas showing four horsemen outriding a blizzard. It had color, light, demoniac motion. It was by World-Citizen Clivette. Mr Kellman bought it and others-cascades that thundered, tigers that snarled. Then he opened his up town show...
...Watson-Williams-Eddy offence combination was too much for the Crimson. Williams in the pivot position was the stellar light of the game, scoring seven goals from the floor. Watson and Eddy, starting forwards, eluded the Crimson defense for 21 points between them...