Word: whistlerisms
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...will be argued that this was just what was meant to be. Certainly from the very beginning the picture is filled with a foreboding for the audience that, like the whistler, Miss Russell will come to no good end. And from that comes the film's great flaw...
This statement about "Whistling Dick" (Richard Milburn) is very much less than adequate. Milburn was a barber who worked in his father's shop on Lombard Street in Philadelphia. He was a guitar player and a marvelous whistler, and it was he who originated the melody and at least the title of Listen to the Mocking Bird. Winner only set down the melody and arranged it after it had been played and whistled and sung over to him by Milburn. Winner may have furnished most or all of the words as published, but the life of the song springs...
...many people have cars," he explained last week, "and they have gone so far and so fast that the whole business has been rather run into the ground." Eugene Gallatin's interest in art is older than his interest in automobiles as a sport. Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler were his first passions. He collected, studied, and finally wrote a sheaf of books on the elegant Jimmy, but gradually his taste grew more & more advanced, more & more abstract...
...Harvard. With the sudden departure of Bernard De Voto the last vestige of a modern American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong in Mr. De Voto's apparent conflict with the University last spring...
Edgar Degas lived to be 83, grew to be as cantankerous as Whistler, morbidly jealous of the success of younger men, but in his younger days the suave and sociable Manet was one of his best friends. Because of this friendship Degas, already an established artist, showed his pictures in the famed first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874, was infuriated for the rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas...