Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting and the encouragement of young talent pulled him sufficiently out of himself to argue rich Miss Lizzie Bliss, richer Mrs. John D. Rockefeller into becoming collectors and patrons of modern art, made him a hard working organizer of the historic Armory Show of 1913 that brought the French moderns to the attention of the U. S. public...
...famed Valentino bullfighting picture Blood and Sand. For Director James Cruze she cut The Covered Wagon, worked on other material for him while he helped promote her into a directorship of her own. She directed Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, which gave Miss Arzner her reputation for handling emotional drama. Arzner successes since have always been with this sort of material, featuring women players like Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong), Anna Sten (Nona...
...Director Arzner whispers as if afraid of disturbing some invisible superior. Catching the habit from her actors, electricians, camera crew tiptoe, whisper. Absent are the jovial capers, bawdy stories, practical jokes traditional on male-directed sets. Away from the camera Miss Arzner works in an elaborate office built for her at Columbia, goes home to a hillside where she sleeps beside a window so that the sunrise will wake her. Although her father ran a restaurant, she shows small interest in food, takes rough age for lunch. She has never married, goes out little, is now making Mother Carey...
...Christmas songs for Columbia this week. Herr Maendler's aim in constructing from old Viennese cherry-wood this super-harpsichord was to eliminate the twangling and jangling of the instrument's complicated internal machinery.* With this carefully constructed 20th Century edition of the piano's forerunner, Miss Pessl hopes to evoke no unwanted vibrations to mar her recording and broadcasting...
...called in to bolster the staff when a half a dozen different games are going on in the vicinity. For this reason students or others are called in the work out the charts of the games, keep the records, and generally help out if the reporters happen to miss a play...