Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge the true value of art is to have a group of laymen vote on it, which is the system selected by E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., in determining the best "Pioneer Woman in America," as conceived by twelve competing sculptors, exhibited for the past fortnight at the Reinhardt Galleries in Manhattan...
...Bryant Baker, the winner in the initial balloting in Manhattan, has chosen for a model for his typical pioneer woman a Manhattan actress. He is an English man; has been in the U. S. twelve years; has received a commission to model a head of President Wil son to stand in the League of Nations Building at Geneva. He completed his bronze within a month from the time he learned of the contest. His depiction shows a beautiful and shapely young woman striding into the American dawn, a Bible in hand, a wideawake boy trotting at her side, who appears...
...last in her repertory, Eva Le Gallienne revives Susan Glaspell's Inheritors, a play on true Americanism. For those who do not object to a lofty propaganda with their theatre, it offers tense, lucid drama. For others, it seems wordy. The first scene shows the farmer-pioneer, Silas Morton (Robert F. Ross), struggling against the materialism of his family who object to bequeathing their best hill to the state for the erection of a college that will preserve "the best that has been thought and said." But in 1879, Morton College is founded. By 1920, it has grown...
Francis Emroy Warren-hero, rancher, pioneer, lawgiver, financier, shepherd, Grand...
...LOVER-Richard Connell-Minion, Batch ($2). Be not dismayed if you hear that this book deals with the spendthrift son of an Irish-American pioneer in a city with slums and polo, like Toledo. Author Connell writes books on transatlantic steamers and French park benches. He knows no more about sons of Irish-American pioneers than he does about Mongolian law or any other dull literary subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents...