Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait of the late Millicent found a spectral voice...
...pity that no report of it hangs in Memorial Hall. But he would never allow a portrait of himself to be drawn. Into his personality strangers must not intrude. Venturing once to try for memoranda of his face, I took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made...
London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester...
...following one another; whereas in a picture, all images, all colors, appear simultaneously, blending into one, like to sounds in accord, which makes possible in painting, as well as in music, a greater degree of harmony than in poesy. Ask a lover which is more delectable to him - a portrait of his beloved or a description." EDGAR WEBB Director of Unit Managers Training The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York City Mr. Webb refers to the "Ear v. Eye'' letter of Publisher Hecht (TIME, April 15) and to Professor Pitkin's prediction that the "talkies" will elevate...
...Anne of Cleves, a plain German, no longer young. Henry had seen only Holbein's portrait of her. He married her largely to gain influential friends against France. Seeing her for the first time, he "disliked her person." He went through with the ceremony, set her aside...