Word: modernist
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Obscure in Manhattan was Hector O. Hamilton until, last March, his design for the Soviet Union's new Palace of Soviets suddenly won Red favor in competition with work submitted by eight world-great modernist architects, notably happy Josef Urban (TIME, March...
...theories on dancing? the classic, plastic picture, the lively interpretation of non-ballet music, the accomplished foot-work?she handed on to her six adopted daughters. Of these. Margot is dead. Erica retired. Therese married Manhattan Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois. Lisa of the pretty blonde curls has turned modernist, dances in Paris. Dark, classic-featured Anna was once the leader of the group, toured the U. S. some ten years ago with Lisa and Margot. Because of stories about Isadora's Communistic leanings they found themselves in frequent trouble. Currently Anna is having her voice trained; from her ranch near...
...interpretative dancing is currently in low repute after years of twitting for its fat women in Greek robes and coy postures; if it is being hard pressed by such modernist schools as that of Mary Wigman, it is at least more alive than it was before the great Isadora began to teach. Last week's Stadium audience seemed aware of this when it gave its greatest applause not to the elaborate group dances but to the simple little one which Irma Duncan had got from her foster mother...
Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...
...Modernist Architect William Lescaze showed a metal ash tray and a flower holder...