Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Calvin Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes, Will H. Hays and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times...
...Chicago Opera, with all respect to these most worthy institutions, do not present all of music, just as a collection of oil paintings does not present all of art. The Chamber Music played by Mr. Whiting is to the Symphony what an exquisite miniature is to a Titian portrait--and each has its lovers. To the lovers of Chamber Music played by Mr. Whiting offers gratis to members of the University the best, and thereby fills a place that in many other institutions of learning is left vacant...
...Coolidge gave a portrait of the late Calvin Coolidge Jr. to the Walter Reed Hospital (Washington). It seemed appropriate to do so because he had anticipated a military career and because he died in Walter Reed Hospital, where War veterans are rehabilitated...
...PORTRAIT OF A BANKER-Anna Robeson Burr-Duffield...
...racing; the sign of Gemini; a Poem by Witter Bynner; a businesslike forecast by Edward Streeter; a drawing by C.D. Batchelor; some Praise of Circuses by Earl Chapin May; a Portrait in Words by Gertrude Stein; and a sketch by Janet Smalley...