Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail for her to clutch, she projects the full horror of the sinking ship. Later, as a sculptress who is Edna's husband's mistress, she contributes a sympathetic, plausible portrait that helps to save the story from bathos...
Those who saw the portrait, however, could tell that its subject was a titled man-of-the-world, a sportsman, a connoisseur of literature, art and tobacco. A dinner jacket suit, from which the painter has removed himself, sits upright in a chair beside a small round table, on which there are a signet ring, a pipe and a leather-bound book. Behind the chair, where the room's blue-green walls meet, stand three polo mallets; near them hangs the painting of an Italianate nude...
...Rijn might be considered excessively vain, for he painted 62 pictures of his own face.* Emanuele, Count Castelbarco Albani, Italian painter whose first one-man show in the U. S. opened last week in Manhattan's Marie Sterner Galleries, might be considered inordinately modest, for the only self-portrait in Count Castelbarco's exhibit portrays no part of the Count's body...
Holder of a 745-year-old title, Count Castelbarco had long been an art collector and ban vivant when he decided, seven years ago, to take up painting seriously. To Manhattan he brought, besides the self-portrait, some clear, flowing Italian landscapes, some easy, informal portraits. He brought as well his wife, the Countess Wally, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor, whose hobby is painting. Herself unmusical, Countess Castelbarco likes to wear shoes modeled on those of the Medicis, made of cork, with five-inch heels, three-inch soles...
...president, and it was under his direction that Postum swelled until it became General Foods Corp. with some 80 products and $74,000,000 in assets. Today as General Foods chairman, modestly ensconced in a white colonial office on the 17th floor of the Postum Building in Manhattan, a portrait of his father over the fireplace, a bust of Lincoln, his favorite character, above his silvering head, Colby Chester shares the corporate detail with President Clarence Francis, devoting more & more of his time to semi-public service. Slight, quiet, earnest, he is a crack tennis player and the best golfer...