Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Hungary was looking for somebody to commemorate its "liberation" with a giant monument, Voroshilov found the man on the spot. On a stroll through a Budapest park, he had seen and admired a sculpture by Sigismund de Strobl. Voroshilov dropped in at De Strobl's studio on newly named Voroshilov Avenue, found the sculptor quite willing to do the job. But De Strobl would have nothing to do with the proposed designs, which called for a Greek temple. "Design what you like," said Voroshilov grandly. "You're the artist...
...Improvements Allowed. The boys are mighty particular about how their songs get plugged. Whenever they can make it, they show up at the studio when a top singer first tries out a new one. Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it when we're staring 'em in the face. Lotsa singers don't know the proper phrasing and even lose a rhyme. So we gotta be around to protect our baby." Says Jule: "Nobody's going to improve our songs to death...
...weeks, Bobby Hackett had been doing his own double-in-brass. He went through his routine studio chores with easy, sweet-playing confidence. Then he went to work downtown, playing the most melodic hot trumpet in the land. So far the pace was telling on neither the man nor his music...
...like all hot jazzmen, is an authority on hard times) some memorable paydays. ABC pays him $165 a week for a 40-hour week for 20 hours of actual playing. Grace Rongetti, Nick's widow, pays better than that, complaining only when Bobby gets tied up at the studio and has to send a substitute down...
John Sloan, 77, who has spent the past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...