Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen-tested, hired by Warner Bros. At 21, she was already a star in her own right when she played, in The Sea Beast with John Barrymore. After one more picture together. When a Man Loves, they were married. Dolores went to live in the Barrymore mansion, Bella Vista, on a bleak crest over Beverly Hills, taking her place among the Barrymore trophies of field & stream, the Barrymore whimsicalities and the Barrymore dinosaur egg obtained from Roy Chapman Andrews. She laughed at her husband's epigrams, tolerated his sycophants, condoned his escapades, bore him Dolores (5), John...
...Views. It is difficult to pick favorite artists of one who has bought so widely, but Mrs. Rockefeller's intimates know that she has two favorite views : one from her gallery window; the other a vista in Central Park. She has commissioned the dryly accurate Charles Sheeler to paint the latter, the more impressionistic Stefan Hirsch to do the gallery view...
Spread before the eyes of the young poets who wish to see is the vista of a world of struggle, of economic and political forces locked in a clench, battling without regard for the Marquis of Queensberry's rules. Miss Rukeyser, in her poem on the Scottsboro case, gives us her view; Hayes, who declares somewhat theatrically that he is a "permanent communist," gives us his in "For People Who Buy in Small Parcels," while James McQuail, who also strikes a pose as an "overpowering conservative," stands pat, with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories...
WALTER B. GRIMES U. S. Engineer Office Rio Vista, Calif...
Author Mann discovers in Joseph a mystic who, like all his long line, was conscious of "the transparency of being, the characteristic recurrence of the prototype." This is the theme, unpopular in an individualistic day, which opens up like a never-ending vista from Author Mann's pages. As a mere tour de force, in revivifying the fossilized record of a universally familiar legend. Young Joseph would be a masterpiece, but it is far more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point...