Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bronze lions and up the steps of Chicago's Art Institute last week filed a brave little band of Chicago intellectuals to have a look at the museum's latest one-man show. Actually the show was an exhibition of the work of two men - Martin & George Baer - but artistically they are Siamese twins. Their paintings are as undistinguishable as the scrivenings of the Brothers Goncourt...
There are several reasons for Chicago's taking the Brothers Baer seriously. In the first place, they are Chicagoans. Second, they are capable artists. Best known fact about the Brothers Baer, however, is that they sell their paintings cheaply. Brother George, shepherding the collection while Brother Martin is in Paris, earnestly declared...
...Still pending is the suit of minority shareholders against the Gillette directors (TIME, July 20). Last week President Louis Segal remained serene. "I do not attach much importance to the action which has been taken by Gillette Co.," said he. Representing Segal is one-time Federal Judge Hugh Martin Morris who was counsel for United Cigar Stores against Gillette...
...MARTIN'S SUMMER?Vicki Baum?Cosmopolitan...
...Authoress Vicki Baum, whose dramatized Grand Hotel has made a hit on Broadway, tells a light-heartedly lubricous tale of an Adonisian swimming instructor and the damage he did at a German summer resort. Martin was a serious-minded young man (he had invented a paper substitute for cinema film) who found himself temporarily out of a job and turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer...