Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with Oiwin? The cinema presented untold possibilities for expanding his talent as a poet and his powers to divine the speed of horses. Yet there lay danger. The slightest alteration might impair Oiwin's magic, hilariously tested at so many box offices...
...British hanged Robert Emmet, and his brother Thomas emigrated to the U. S. with his wife and daughter Elizabeth, who had a pretty talent in drawing. A fellow passenger on the packet was a portrait painter and steamboat designer named Robert Fulton, who set about improving Elizabeth Emmet's gift. Within eight years Thomas Emmet was Attorney General of the State of New York and Elizabeth Emmet was beginning her career as a portrait painter...
...over a century the males of the Emmet line have been important legal and political figures in the Atlantic states. The females have inherited the Emmet artistic talent. Last week Manhattan's Arden Galleries held a family show of five generations of the Emmet women's paintings. The 130 exhibits by 14 artists begin with nine portraits by Immigrant Elizabeth Emmet (1794-1878), and end with nine sculptures by Great-Great-Grandniece Julia Townsend, aged 22, and with two by Beulah Emmet, aged...
...talent stretched over 100 years seldom produces a genius. Nevertheless two living Emmets of the third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
...Sept. 30, 1935) told of her first two marriages, of establishing a meeting-place for adventurous spirits in her villa in Florence, included droll accounts of how she almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers...