Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, the shade of Grover Cleveland was invoked to help out an optimistic lottery scheme of Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson's "to set the wheels of business going within 90 days." The Thompson plan: stores in Chicago and vicinity are to give away numbered tickets-bearing the portrait of Mayor Thompson-with every 25 purchase. Those who draw the winning tickets will receive prizes amounting to $1,000,000. Aware that the Post Office Department would consider his scheme illegal, said amazing Mayor Thompson: "I'm going to a medium who's in touch regularly with...
...famed Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86) for Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. Playwright Glaspell's Emily Dickinson is Alison Stanhope, who lived not in Massachusetts but in Iowa. However, both Alison and Emily made their trips to Washington, wrote poems to a hopeless love whose portrait hung above a desk, left memories jealously guarded by their families. The play opens 18 years after Alison's demise, on the last day of the last century. Alison's house has been sold, the family is moving out. Her relatives gather. All save one have denied themselves...
Among the paintings, all substantial additions to the Fogg's collection, is Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man." This valuable portrait was formerly in the collection of the Duke of Oldenburg. Hanging on the same wall is a "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving...
...hang in the State Museum at Madison went last week the only portrait of Governor-elect La Follette's father, the late great Robert Marion La Follette, ever painted while he was Wisconsin's chief executive (1901-05). Donor of the painting was Walter Jodok Kohler...
...because this turned out to be an ecclesiastical show; ecclesiastical and also Icelandic. We have a full length portrait of Cardinal Hayes, one of Bishop Stires by Frank O. Salisbury, one of Rabbi Wise, and three of Bishop Manning. Obviously the nude figure of Robeson would have been inappropriate...