Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bennett's portrait of the voluble old vineyard-keeper is technically adept, artful in appearance, but often lacking in absolute conviction. Glenn Anders does incomparably the best work of his career as the farm hand. The remainder of the production is managed with the usual surety and vigor of the Theatre Guild...
...journalistic trade sheet, set one Birdie Reeve, patient tabulator, to work pulling apart the speech made by Mr. Coolidge before a recent gathering of the Associated Press in Manhattan. It was believed that Miss Reeve's findings would enable newspapers "to give the people of the Nation a revealing portrait of the man they have chosen to lead them...
Whether or not the columns of words and figures that resulted were "a revealing portrait," they constituted an unusual layout of an address 4,646 words in length. There were...
...Other rooms there are, innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
...artist awoke, dumbfounded, to find himself knighted with a check. Among the rewarded was a famed artist whose youth and struggles have long been at an end-Childe Hassam, famed New England impressionist. Yet he, too, was dumbfounded. Receiving the Altman Prize, carrying with it $1,000, for his portrait Miss Ingram, he is said to have expressed great surprise, remarking that he thought he had already won every prize possible for the Academy to give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze at this last straw dropped so courteously on his already prodigious load of honors. The present...