Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keith Memorial. Anyway, Don Ameche is called on not only to portray how the inventor of the telephone obtained recognition but also to show how he gained riches. In the first assignment, all is reasonably smooth sailing. Aided by Loretta Young, Don Ameche gives a fairly convincing life portrait of Bell in his rise from a cold attic to the court of Queen Victoria. This might seem the logical point at which to call quits, but RKO is adamant and refuses to halt here. Instead, the picture embarks on a long dull explanation to prove that genius is rewarded...
...accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...
...Conquest (Republic). This week's addition to the cinema's rapidly growing biography shelf is a lively portrait of General Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee (1827-29), victor over Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna, and President of the Republic of Texas...
...whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People's Poet if there...
...Portrait of America (1934), Portrait of Mexico...