Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice. The spirit of Gertrude Stein has been caught most surely in the plastic arts with which she has so deep an affinity; she comes to us most directly through the portrait of Picasso and the dominating clay of Jo Davidson...
...Keeler, in Chinese makeup, does a tap dance on a bar. Although the cinema code has not yet been signed, Hollywood productions, wherever possible, contain compliments for the NRA. In Footlight Parade, a line of marching soldiers fades irrelevantly into a U. S. flag. The flag fades into a portrait study of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sailors then assemble themselves in the shape of a lopsided eagle. Most of the mass-maneuvers in Footlight Parade only remotely resemble dances but they are sufficiently bizarre-in many cases, pretty-to be worth watching. They also provide suspense for Warner Brothers next...
...Detroit) Medical Society (among others) conducted memorial meetings and exhibits. This week the New York Academy of Medicine begins an elaborate commemoration with some 300 Beaumont items on display-photostats of private papers (from Washington University, St. Louis, whose medical school Beaumont helped found ), photographic reproductions of every Beaumont portrait known, and two photographs of Alexis St. Martin...
What little action and plot there is in "Biography" is concentrated on Marion Froude. When we first see her, she is waiting for something to happen; it does. She is asked by her first love, Leander, to paint his portrait; a young editor asks her to write her biography for a sensational weekly, for she is a famous personality whose charm exceeds her ability as an artist,--the public has heard that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot...
Presently the Pettigrews have further cause for astonishment. Peter Standish uses words like "cockeyed," "cigaret," "tank." He sits to Sir Joshua Reynolds, praises as his masterpiece a portrait not yet completed. He bewilders the Duchess of Devonshire with epigrams from Oscar Wilde, offends her by the historical tone of his compliments. He is not interested in Kate Pettigrew. He loves her sister Helen but he knows, from old diaries, that Peter Standish married Kate and Helen died when she was very young. Faced by the wry problem of an emotion at once timeless and defeated, Peter Standish finally finds himself...