Word: sorrento
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other picture, "Give Us This Night," allows grand opera stars Gladys Swarthout and Jan Kispura to sing to one another in Sorrento by the sea. There is, to be sure, the hackneyed admixture of sacrifice, misunderstanding, running out at the last minute, and reappearing at an even later minute to displace the incompetent substitute. Also on the debit side is the fact that both Gladys and Jan know more about vocal cords than histrionics. But there are many snatches of freshness, and Jan keeps you fairly excited by a fiery vigor amounting almost to daftness. Gladys, moreover, does not invite...
...Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick and Superintendent Collins felt that this was not sufficient. Chosen to paint a permanent mural with WPA funds was Lucienne Bloch...
...flat, sandy, scrubby, down-at-heel," but these parts are offset by the plantation river homes of the low-country, Charleston with the churches, homes and public buildings of unsurpassed architectural charm, gardens, gates, doorways and streets that equal any in the world. The beauties of Italy, Amain, Sorrento, Naples remind me only of Charleston and its surrounding "low-country...
...chief philosopher and greatest teacher of representational U. S. art is Iowa's chubby, soft-spoken Grant Wood? Like Benton, Grant Wood studied in France, turned out his share of Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from...
...inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"-presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view of the back of his hat), hurried ashore for a quick motor ride to Sorrento and Pompeii. Whisked through Marseilles by the police. Comrade Trotsky motored to Lyon. announced the subject of his Copenhagen lectures: "Just what is the Russian Revolution of October?" Reporters agreed that Comrade Trotsky is taking chances on his trip to Denmark. Germany still will not let him cross her frontiers...