Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most modern satirists, Artist Citron is shrewd enough not to omit herself. A picture of a broad-beamed young woman sprawled on a stool and scowling at a drawing board is supposed to be a self-portrait. Minna Citron is actually much better looking. She was born Minna Wright of Newark, N. J. Henry Citron, to whom she has been married 18 years, is a Brooklyn paper box manufacturer...
...Mary Hoover, the only U. S. muralist ever to graduate from the chorus of Earl Carroll's Vanities, held her first Manhattan show with 28 bright, clear-cut canvases painted during the past two years in the little Balearic island of Ibiza. Her most effective pictures were a portrait of an island bartender, pouring a drink of brandy before a row of gaily labeled bottles; a girl in a striped blouse playing cards; a patient, silver-grey donkey with dejected ears...
Every day,, pretending to be his sister, Mary Hoover called on Prisoner Quintanilla, found him infuriated but comfortable, hard at work painting a portrait of the warden who was hugely pleased. On top of the excitement of her first Manhattan show, Artist Hoover last week received even better news: the Spanish Government had relented to the point of letting Luis Quintanilla out on 3,000 pesetas bail...
Another great portrait of the 15th Century mercenary (scowling as usual, in a velvet cap and gold brocaded tunic) was the highlight of a loan exhibition of Renaissance portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent...
...Barrie (It's a Small World). In private life also Miss Lanchester is the wife of Henry VIII (Charles Laughton). Although he is known for his plump effeminacy, she is mannish in dress. She journeyed from England to play Clickett Micawber's slavey in David Copperfield, a portrait mostly left on the cutting-room floor; appeared briefly in Naughty Marietta. As a child she refused to be educated at a young ladies' seminary, was the only girl at a small English school for boys. She ran her own night club for a while, did a turn...