Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas' House of Representatives at Austin, RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, heard himself extolled for three hours as Texas' First Citizen, saw his portrait (see cut) unveiled amid cheers of one Governor, six ex-Governors, hundreds of Texas bigwigs. Telegrams were read from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, North Carolina's Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who hinted to Chairman Jones: "Maybe in 1940 we'll be looking to you to lead our Party to victory...
...full length portrait of a Chinese nobleman, a product of the Ming-Ching period, which, translated, means late 17th or early 18th century, is considered to have been the collector's favorite. At the opposite extreme are four tiny landscapes, their lines barely visible on the ancient, faded silk. Of even greater age is a 12th century South Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin...
...Touch of Brimstone (by Leonora Kaghan & Anita Philips; John Golden producer) is a genuine three-dimensional portrait of a complete, ruthless egotist. Mark Faber (Roland Young) got into show business simply to make a fortune. To him the theatre is just one more racket he can beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty...
Henry Wilcoxon plays Richard the Lion Hearted with a sort of mediaeval gusto that seems to get across pretty well. Riding his horse through countless mob scenes bellowing orders and slugging the incompetent, he achieves a good portrait of lusty leadership...
...frame of eight inches bounded by editorials on one side and on the other by piano advertisements it is not easy to paint the portrait of a man whose influence on contemporary thought is exceeded perhaps only by that of his pupils. Look through the frame, gentleman, and envisage the character; It is Athens over 2000 years ago. A pug-nosed goggled-eyed philosopher has just sneaked away from his unsympathetic wife and is heading for the market place. There he knows he will meet Plato and Glancon and other men with whom he can examine this all too unexamined...