Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...casually, for his work is intensely personal and his personality is provoking. Looking upon the philosophical brow, dreamy eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music...
...here we are spending more money than it takes to keep the national supper club on a sound basis, minding their business for them. It's disgraceful. Coolidge is right at the center of this. He has always been that way. Waits until the time comes when there's only one place to jump and then jumps in that place with the smile of one who has planned a surprise. The only difference this time is that the water is over his head. And then there isn't good enough mountain to name Calvin Coolidge Hump or Mt. Calvin...
Lately Germany announced that it could make silk for a lady's stocking out of the lobster shells left from her supper party (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week Engineer Kurt Gerson of Berlin went further. He said he could make silk purses out of sows' ears, boars' ankles," potato peelings, toothpicks and all manner of garbage. In a large factory now being constructed under his specifications, kitchen refuse will be sifted for the cellulose ingredients of artificial silk or, if desired, gun cotton. The remaining refuse will be distilled for tar, charcoal, acetic acid...
...finale, the Baron, of course, turns out to be the Count de Varigny as a Mr. Hyde in search of unrequited Romance with a green-panelled Elsie de Wolfian apartment for the entertainment of his amatory experiments. After a very tiring tete a tete supper the Count discovers that Miss Bainter is the be loved of his son and there follows forgiveness, reconciliation, and the happy ending, (500,000 francs...
Cleaning windows is poor training for painting landscapes, even river scenes. Scrubbing floors, poking up stairs which smell of last night's supper, dusting closets, beating carpetscause he had talent. A black man with talent might find a patron, but only because he was black. Palmer Hayden, Negro, found no patron. He washed windows for a living, painted scenes that he rememberednished pictures and two sketches, they depicted the Holy Land he is held, pretending to be an artist? The critics may have been right. Mr. Cornwall's work has a facility that keeps it from being important. He gets...