Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to popular requests, they have scheduled two additional days of studio photography in the Lowell House Coolidge Room. The photographer will be there today and Monday, the editors said, from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5:30 o'clock...
...they tend to obscure instead of illuminate the miracle of Christmas, it is not altogether for lack of trying. Behind the locked door of his Paris studio, 76-year-old Georges Rouault paints Christs as glowing and brittle as stained glass. They are done with devotion (Rouault is an ardent Catholic), but their deliberate crudity is almost as obvious a barrier to appreciation as the lock on his door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting...
...Baldovinetti's talent might have made him the master of his day; while he lived he was known chiefly for his piety and craftsmanship. It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which Florentines could put in a contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city...
Like all broadcasts, when it was over, it had vanished with the wind. NBC had recorded the program for its files, but Toscanini was not likely to let such a version-with studio coughs and occasional minor imperfections of playing-be released to the public. Toscanini, who is now 80, had agreed to record full-length operas for RCA Victor, but had still to make the first one, La Traviata. And with the Petrillo recording ban only ten days away, it was likely to be some time before he got around...
...Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). James Mason in Painted Veils, James Huneker's story of an aging music critic on Christmas...