Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master...
Father of modern orchestration was an excitable red-headed Frenchman named Hector Berlioz, who lived in the middle 19th Century. From him such romantic composers as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, such impressionists as Claude Debussy, learned many a trick of the trade. Erratic but forceful, Composer Berlioz, an original in...
Over 400 planes joined in mass aerobatics, and next it was time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of...
(First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe...
Louisville's modest Chancery Judge James Garnett has legal power to interpret men's minds. Last week he had to decide about the last testament of Louisville's late Civil Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read...