Word: studio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of what U. S. newsgatherers will say about M. Poiret could be gleaned from a space filler done last week by one Henry Beckett of the New York Evening Post, who hashed up half-truths thus: "In Paris M. Poiret inhabits a studio with leopard skins on the floors, frescoes on the walls and stone figures of nude women on pedestals. He gained note as a builder of styles for fat women, and he learned about women-fat women -from umbrellas. He used to be an apprentice to an umbrella manufacturer, and he studied the lines and curves...
...actual, plans for the new Fogg Museum matured over a period of ten years. It is primarily a combination of a teaching museum with an actual museum. It is designed to meet the varying and exacting requirements of classroom, gallery, library, laboratory, studio, print room, and museum. Important as the exterior of the new Fogg is, it is the interior which makes it one of the most remarkable and exemplary places of museum architecture in America. The pivot and center of the building is a great court bordered on three sides by arcades and on the fourth by a grill...
Died. Anton T. Kliegl, 54, developer of the famed Klieglight, which has enabled cinema directors to photograph outdoor scenes in the studio; suddenly, in Bad Kissingen, Germany, his birthplace...
Died. Charles W. Svensson, painter, uncle of Cinemactress Gloria Swanson; in Manhattan, in a fire in his studio from which, frantic, he was trying to rescue his portraits of his famed niece...
With these words, one Betty Honeyman of the Bronx, who has posed in many an artist's studio, in various stages of dress, broke into the news last week. She had posed for the first cigaret advertisement ever to appear in a U. S. publication showing a woman in the act of smoking...