Word: spagnola
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...sand. To the City they pay nothing for licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino...
...Nearby Spagnola works another old-world artist, George Spetsas, who was born on the Isle of Samothrace, went to Atlantic City at 19 because his brother was a hotel waiter there. No foreigner is 32-year-old Paul Jones of Pottstown, Pa., whose permanent display, The Spirit of Atlantic City, presents boardwalkers with a view of Neptune taking a good look at a mermaid...