Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when "Bishop" Grace arrived in Harlem to inspect his new property, and presumably to evangelize a rich new territory, Father Divine issued one of his prolix statements to his followers and the world: "It has been said that this place has been purchased by some individual. If it has been purchased, it was according to My Instruction. It was offered to My Followers and they were disinterested in it. They would not, nor did not, even so much as lease the building for a further length of time. . . . We have aplenty, aplenty of buildings. . . . We have accommodation...
...About Music (Universal). Greatest asset of deficit-ridden Universal Pictures Co. Inc. is wholesome, rich-voiced, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. When her first featured picture, Three Smart Girls, was started in 1936, Universal, newly taken over from Carl Laemmle Sr. by a syndicate headed by Banker John Cheever Cowdin, was $1,835,419.07 in the red as of Oct. 30. Three Smart Girls cost about $300,000, has thus far grossed almost $2,000,000. Six months ago Deanna's second film, 100 Men and a Girl, was released and immediately justified the added expenditure allowed...
...series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems noted that in at least one painting, Savage Trees, he swirled a brush full of rich color in a freer, more furious style...
...months he was sleeping in Bombay parks. Then a calendar company commissioned him to paint a goddess. After two more months of painting goddesses, young Yawalkar tired of city life and lit out for home. There he remained until about a year ago, when the young, rich, plump, art-loving Maharaja of Gwalior invited him to show his paintings at the palace, Upshot of that was that Artist Yawalkar went to Paris last year, then to London, and this week, in Manhattan, had his first big one-man show. It was also the first show of any importance...
...ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling on their day off. Artist Evergood's distaste for rich playgirls was expressed in Beauty...