Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike his patron's wife, Roxy, onetime Marine, is no champion of L'Art Moderne. Last month he and ancient Actor DeWolf Hopper made a puzzled inspection tour of the theatre. They stopped before a Herculean, brushed-aluminum nude figure by William Zorach entitled The Spirit of the Dance...
...Liege named Hubert. A mighty hunter was he, whose horn would sound right valiantly through the Forest of Ardennes. After his death Hubert was sainted; he had traditionally been converted on a Good Friday when, hunting, he saw a miraculous stag with a shining crucifix between its antlers. A patron of hunters, St. Hubert may be invoked in cases of hydrophobia...
...Depression. Last year the second Baron Rothschild, now grown to look like a huge-paunched, twinkle-eyed St. Nick with a Ph.D., wrote the American Museum a reluctant letter offering to sell most of his birds. They had cost him around $1,000,000, but when a rich Museum patron offered half that much the deal was closed. Curator Robert Cushman Murphy hastened to Tring last February, helped classify, catalog, pack the nearly 280,000 specimens. Last week the Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring...
...Senator Clark's son William Andrews Jr., older than the Boutet de Monvel children, is now patron of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (TIME...
...Emperor K'ang-hsi, is printed on specially treated paper in multiple colors, using black, red, yellow, and green inks to produce a brilliant display. The colors have remained fast to the present day. Many monumental works were produced in the reign K'anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged by rhymes. The complicated system of symbols used in the Chinese alphabet at this period rendered the task a life work for a large commission...