Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book's size is 8 1-2" by 6 1-4" by 2 1-4". It is clearly printed on good paper with the Droeshout copperplate portrait of Shakespeare from the First Folio as frontispiece. The 37 known plays of Shakespeare are included, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by Shakespeare and Fletcher, and all of the sonnets and other poems...
Less than a year ago, Pearl Syden-stricker Buck published a sympathetic portrait of her mother called The Exile (TIME, Jan. 13). In that affectionate volume, Carrie Sydenstricker, sensible missionary and patient mother, far overshadowed her husband Andrew. He emerged as a zealous, absent-minded man who was constantly pushing deeper into China to gather converts of doubtful loyalty and understanding. Good, unquestioning, self-righteous, he caused Carrie more suffering than he knew. This week in another purely biographical volume that is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father...
...producer, Mr. Miles is known to New York audiences for "Nine Pino Street", written in collaboration with John Colton. The author of the internationally known success "Rain". Other Broadway productions of his plays include "Portrait of Gilbert" and "The Granite Lady...
...shows, the Whitney Biennial has no jury, offers no prizes, but the Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde in a plumed shako by Walt Kuhn, who started his artistic career drawing comic pictures for the humorous weeklies, has become one of the ablest painters...
Except for the wooden character of its central figure, The Chronicle of Aaron Kane contains all the ingredients of a racy historical romance. The work of a portrait painter whose first novel, South, was published last year, it is illustrated with fine handsome color reproductions of Frederick Wight's Cape Cod portraits, runs to 559 well-filled pages. But for readers these graces will not compensate for the lack of any human rattle and recklessness in hard-pressed Aaron Kane. Heroes and heroines of historical romance may be as incredible as Anthony Adverse or as absurd as Scarlett...