Word: venusized
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...week was the centuries' meandering sequence of styles in painting, each example a world-famed masterpiece. And Director Harshe headlined the show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez de Silva...
...Blonde Venus (Paramount), Marlene Dietrich...
...Halstead. Cincinnati journalist famed among other things for having witnessed and vividly described the hanging of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Margaret Halstead's father, friend of Lawyer Cravath, was until recently U. S. Consul General in London. His strapping soprano daughter was a nervous, inexperienced siren as Venus in Tannhäuser last week, but she sang the difficult music accurately, often beautifully. Critics who might have deplored her lack of experience put her down instead as a promising young singer who in time might become an asset big in drawing power as well as body...
...interests of the common people from the selfish mess of plutocratic blood-suckers, something should be done about the cinemas which Hollywood magnates foist upon the public and on the theatres. The producers appear to have at their disposal money, talent, equipment, everything, except taste and intelligence. "Blonde Venus" is a case to the point...
...theme of the picture in the problem of the custody of the child of a divorced or aspirated couple; this is a predicament common enough, yet little discussed on the stage, and it would in the proper hands adapt itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms...