Word: portraits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foregoing may suggest that Man's Estate is a man's play. It is not. Earle Larimore gives an acutely sympathetic portrait of the beaten youth, but the story mounts to its second-act crescendo through the beauty of Margalo Gillmore's portrayal of the girl who, without wanting to, draws the youth back into the shadows of mediocrity. There are other excellent performances by Edward Pawley, Dudley Digges, Elizabeth Patterson and Armina Marshall. Mr. Digges also is to be credited with the direction. The production is flush with the Theatre Guild's usual high level...
...Cover portrait drawn by Philadelphia Artist Vladimir Pertilieff...
...Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend the carrying out of whatever oil-restriction agreements were made, and many another. It was a notable company that American Petroleum Institute had assembled in the big director's room that is dominated by Artist Boynton's portrait of A. P. I. Founder, A. C. Bedford. Not for nothing, thought Sir Henri, sprinkling cheese-crumbs, bread crumbs on the grey carpet, had the Isle de France rushed him across the Atlantic and docked him the day before...
...dinner given in his honor by his London agent. The dinner was at a Soho restaurant, and yet: There was a horseshoe table with seats for thirty. Along the table little American flags were set in pots of forget-me-nots. Behind the chairman's table was a portrait of President Coolidge, draped with red, white, and blue bunting, and about the wall−Heaven knows where Hurd could have collected them all−were shields and banners of Yale, Harvard and the University of Winnemac, of the Elks, the Oddfellows, the Moose, the Woodmen, of the Rotarians...
Died. George Washington Lewis, of Cambridge, Mass., for over 45 years the esteemed Negro steward of the Porcellian Club at Harvard College; in Cambridge, Mass. Ancient and most esoteric of Harvard clubs is Porcellian, founded in 1791.* An oil portrait of Steward Lewis hangs in the clubhouse. Steward Lewis had ten Porcellian pallbearers...