Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final roundup, Maury Maverick was found to have succeeded his grandfather by 18,445 votes to 15,441 for Quin, 11,172 for Jeffers. Grandson Maury promptly took a pre-oath of office administered by his father, Albert Maverick, 86, standing in front of Grandfather Samuel's portrait (see cut). In with Maverick to replace the Quin machine go three out of four city commissioners, including bulky Louis Lipscomb, Princeton 1923 footballer, as fire & police chief...
...Margaret Webster, newsreel-length Shakespeare was a light chore at the end of a heavy season. Besides laboring at the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...
Hung in nine lofty galleries were 290 paintings, beginning with a portrait of Pocahontas and ending with a portrait of Woodrow Wilson, comprising the biggest show the Metropolitan has ever had and a unique collection of pictures. The museum had combed 145 public and private sources, from Boston's (public) Latin School to Missouri's State Historical Society, for paintings illustrative of "Life in America" to 1914. The result was a visual chronicle, period by period, frontier to frontier and back again, of human beings engaged in the conquest of a continent...
...picture, as in fact, Juárez and Maximilian never meet), Juárez is unified by its democratic theme, of which it is a picturesque and moving statement. Not a rich pageant of Central American guerrillas and gaiety like Viva Villa!, nor as searching a personal portrait as The Life of Emile Zola, it has moments as gay and as revealing as either. Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement. And for Warners' star biographer, Director William Dieterle...
...book, Finnegans Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses, considered baffling and obscure 15 years ago, now accepted as a modern masterpiece...