Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eagle's Editor Cleveland Rodgers, a onetime typesetter, is to keep his duties, while on the other side of this united publishing house the Times-Union's Editor Joseph J. Early also continues in control. An alumnus of both papers like their most famed past editor, Walt Whitman, Publisher Goodfellow will now be in general charge of all Brooklyn's home-grown daily reading matter except that provided by the Citizen (circulation...
...Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde in a plumed shako by Walt Kuhn, who started his artistic career drawing comic pictures for the humorous weeklies, has become one of the ablest painters...
...exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...
Booked for a radio interview along with Cinemartist Walt Disney and a young actor playing Donald Duck, Soprano Grace Moore (One Night of Love, The King Steps Out) stormed about the studio until the duck's part was eliminated. Squealed she: "I will not sing with livestock...
...Artists Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach and Walt Kuhn were busy organizing the famed Armory Show that was to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...