Word: whistlerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends are in France or the Near East. Evelyn Waugh is a marine, Rex Whistler a guardsman, Noel Coward a man of official importance...
...supporting role (in Stagecoach) of 1939, makes good pictures. He buys still better ones. The library of his Riviera (near Hollywood) home has a special niche over the mantel. It is the shrine where Tom Mitchell hangs his latest purchases. In it have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to move out. Tom Mitchell had a Rembrandt...
Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of the century; Ernest Dowson, hashish-smoking, tuberculous poet who died young in the gutter after writing Cynara, a poetic rosary for disillusioned young men; Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations...
...Whistler signed his paintings with a butterfly, usually about two inches across. Swiss-born Nat Karson uses an alp. At 29, Painter Karson is black-haired, intense, an art director of Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall. Last week a Karson mural was unveiled in the lobby of Manhattan's Rialto, the Music Hall of its day (1916), but for the last four years a Manhattan movie house specializing in horror pictures. (Harvardman Arthur L. Mayer, the Rialto's owner, calls himself "The Merchant of Menace...