Word: lovet
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...California this was big news. For the past four years able Sculptor Lovet-Lorski ("Lorochka" to his friends) has been the darling of San Francisco and Los Angeles intellectuals, because of his frequent trips to the west coast...
...rich White Russian family, Sculptor Lorochka was born in 1895 in what is now Lithuania. His family sent him to the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Art, where for some time he vacillated between painting, sculpture and architecture. When the War broke, Boris Lovet-Lorski promptly enlisted in the Grodno Hussars, for no other reason than that he liked their gaudy uniform. He was wounded twice, hospitalized in Odessa, soon found himself a personal aide-de-camp to Alexander Kerensky. On the rise of the Bolsheviks, "Lorochka" fled Russia as a cello player...
...moneyed uncle in Boston paid Sculptor Lovet-Lorski's passage to the U. S., of which he became a citizen in 1925. With a real talent for sculpture and a full bag of social tricks, "Lorochka" had no trouble in soon making a place for himself, has not lacked money, friends or customers...
Except for his portraits, Sculptor Lovet-Lorski never uses a model, works out his slick archaic figures from his imagination and his knowledge of anatomy. He still does most of his work in Paris, cannot abide New York. In San Francisco his artistic patron is capable Robert Gump of the huge Gump store in whose galleries most of Lovet-Lorski's sculpture is shown. Last week Patron Gump had just found a new hilltop studio for his protege at No. 1048 Broadway...
Fencing is Lovet-Lorski's favorite sport. He trained this summer with the Austrian Olympic team to keep in practice. Besides maintaining his San Francisco studio he spends several weeks every summer in Hollywood, roistering with friends in the cinema colony. They have not been entirely misspent holidays. Some time ago he completed bronze busts of his friends Rouben Mamoulian and Edward G. Robinson, and last winter Cinemactress Marion Davies persuaded William Randolph Hearst to buy a heroic Lovet-Lorski Venus...