Word: talented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been distributed, scored out the offending legends. But 150,-ooo distributed copies were beyond recall. And of course Mr. Nast demanded Mr. Beaton's resignation as photographer and artist for Vogue, well knowing that after ten years Vogue was losing its highest-priced and most sprightly talent. Third Nast move was to rip out 14 expensive pages of Mr. Beaton's art from the next two issues of Vogue...
...Taylor is perfectly cast as Merrick. Gay and charming, or serious and emotionally overwrought he meets every demand so well that one is convinced he is wasting real talent as America's number one heart throb. Miss Dunne as Mrs. Hudson has a simpler part, but she plays it perfectly. Betty Furness is adequate in a supporting role, and Charlie Butterworth provides welcome relief...
...Chrysler Corp. were to retire from the automobile industry or Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer from the cinema, the event would be more surprising but no more interesting to either business than Steichen's retirement was to his. During the past 15 years he has devoted a famous talent to the development of photography for the magazine market. His name was about the first to mean anything under a fashion photograph. Since 1923 his portraits of stage, screen, society, sporting people have made the most striking pages in Vogue and Vanity Fair...
...collector has had his eyes opened to a wealth of new talent. The museums also have responded . . . many purchases have been made of the work of young and hitherto unknown artists. The commercial gallery has benefited greatly by this newly developed public interest in art, and last but not least ordinary people are beginning to adorn their homes with original works of art instead of the old atrocities. . . . But the WPA artist who has served the public faithfully on this great Government art program has done so under the constant threat of dismissal. . . . The nation is desperately in need...
...sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa on a big-game-hunting vacation...