Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some uncertainty as to whether the Charter Jubilee Art Show which got under way in Chicago last week was the largest such exhibit ever housed in one room, but everyone agreed that it was the longest. It was held on the second-floor gallery of Chicago's Navy Pier, where that city's proletariat is accustomed to flock on Sundays for recreation. Distance from the gallery's west entrance to the far end is 1,300 ft., and since the paintings hung on both walls a half-mile march was necessary to see them...
...year-old dome of Manhattan's Custom House, as fine a public expanse of plaster as any frescoer could itch for. He prepared a series of eight sketches, showing scenes of a liner (Queen Mary) entering New York Harbor, taking the pilot aboard, warping into her pier, discharging freight...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Steel Pier Opera Company last week began its tenth season with an English production of Il Trovatore. Henri Elkan again conducted. Other operas listed: Verdi's Rigoletto, von Flotow's Martha, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana...
...boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers. By 1910 sand sculptors, with bucket, blanket or hat to receive contributions, had become as much an Atlantic City fixture as its wheelchairs, fortune-tellers and Million-Dollar Pier...
...licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told...