Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artist Jorgensen reached California from his native Oslo in 1870, aged 10. He was the first enrolled pupil of the California School of Fine Arts. In 1883, when he had served as the school's assistant director for two years, he married a pupil, Angela Ghirardelli, daughter of famed Chocolate Manufacturer Domingo Ghirardelli, producer of what is still California's best-selling cocoa, and never had to work for a living again. After studying painting in Italy for two years, the Jorgensens moved to Yosemite Valley, built and furnished a home and studio entirely with their own hands...
...Jean Arthur) takes a job as secretary to Fred Gilbert (George Brent), carrot-nibbling editor of a health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season. Sample, when Maizie is angling for a job on Body & Brain: "I can hear my mother say take good care of your body, Maizie, because...
...express the various episodes in the story. Also on the various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in D minor by the late nineteenth century American composer, Edward MacDowell, Mr. Howard Goding is to be the soloist. MacDowell, a pupil of Joachim Raff, wrote this work while staying at Wiesbaden in the summer of 1885, and although most of his compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course in making this particular Concerto unrelated to any program material. Soon after he had completed this...
...103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew at his elbow, left him holding the reins when...