Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada Lee, Negro pugilist-turned-actor, got into a wig and grease paint in Boston and made a little modern theatrical history by playing a white man's role opposite Star Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi. Critics' judgment: a success. In Wilmington, Del., history repeated itself: a theater manager disavowed racial prejudice but canceled The Duchess' engagement...
...Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half of his face and body, including his painting hand. (By great effort, he has since learned to paint as well with his left...
...veterans' families, sharing 40 rooms (and 15 bathrooms) in Kildare Barracks, settled down to spend the winter. They chipped in $25-a-month rent a family, will use it to clean and paint up the place, called in exterminators to get rid of swarms of cockroaches. Said V.H.L. Leader Hanratty: "What we did was illegal. But . . . these places belonged to the Government. Who's the Government but us? . . . We took what was ours...
Constable Earp, who is a second cousin of Arizona's famed Wyatt Earp,* is going to fix up the house with paint and a new roof, and put a place in the back of the lot for his real-estate office. "I plan some little things like picture cards and a booklet on Wyatt Earp and the family," he said, "and if someone buys 50? worth I'll show him the Truman room free...
...most interesting project was the 38 miniatures of George Washington and His Times, which he finished in 1935. The set was presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...