Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cable 4338 we asked New York for permission for the Free French to reproduce De Gaulle's portrait on TIME'S Aug. 4, 1941 cover, and in cable 1166 you gave your okay At the time censorship regulations prevented me from saying why, but now here's the story: the picture was wanted for a leaflet for distribution in France, both occupied and unoccupied. Tens of thousands have been distributed, and I've asked General de Gaulle to sign a sample...
...spinsterish Olga of The Three Sisters rose to fame, 18 years ago, as the sultry siren of Cobra. Since then Australian-born Actress Anderson has played Lavinia Mannon in O'Neill's, Mourning Becomes Electro, the Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently excited...
...Playwright Rice's portrait of George Simon, an East Side boy who became a spectacular, brilliantly successful trial lawyer, is showy, warm-blooded, diversified. Kindly but tough, Simon is not one- when a forgotten legal indiscretion threatens him with disbarment-to give up without a fight, or to be finicky about weapons...
...Science and Industry. Master of Ceremonies was Composer Deems Taylor, whose own efforts suggested to observers that he had best leave the silent arts to such an accomplished brushman as Chairman H. S. Maurer (violinist at Radio City Music Hall). Said Taylor at sight of Chairman Maurer's portrait of Nora: "My God, the man who did that must be a lousy musician...
...late George Gershwin was represented by his self-portrait posed before his easel in top hat, white tie and tails. Nathan Milstein, top-rank violinist, revealed himself as a minor master in watercolor. Rumbologist Xavier Cugat sketched himself standing before invisible bongo drums...