Word: willem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story of Mankind (1921), Story of the Bible (1923), Van Loon's Geography (1932), Ships (1935) and other books, Hendrik Willem Van Loon has avoided the full light of adult criticism by seeming to write not quite for adults, has thus been able to remain one of the great inestimables of the literary world. Critics who resent being spoon-fed from the vast Van Loon pudding are easily convinced by the Van Loon illustrations that his books belong in the nursery. Some children feel vaguely dissatisfied with Artist Van Loon's inky snarls and scratches. Between these critical...
...Arts* last week Hendrik Willem Van Loon presented his most ambitious and earnest chronicle. Fat as its author but not so weighty, cut down from an original 1,800 pages to less than 700, this book embodies "the story of painting and sculpture and architecture and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the caveman until the present time." Bulk of The Arts' material, however, is concerned with the plastic arts. Like a fond Dutch uncle with the skill of an expert lecturer, Mr. Van Loon begins with the premise that artists...
...week that Director Pratt had unearthed a highly unusual hoard from the old Crocker cache. Of 60 drawings which have never been seen before in the U. S., the majority on display were by expert Flemish and Dutch draftsmen of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Nicolaas Berchem, Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder and Younger Lucas Cranach, a panel by Pieter ("Hell") Breughel, works of Poussin, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Durer, Tintoretto...
...engaged enterprising Conductor Vladimir Golschmann of St. Louis and Violinist Albert Spalding as soloist, sold 15,000 tickets. Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer announced that $65,000 had been collected toward the $75,000 budget. Adolph Lewisohn, 88, who donated the $225,000 stadium, promised other conductors like Fritz Reiner, Willem Van Hoogstraten, Alexander Smallens, George King Raudenbush. The first week of the eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome. Ambitiously the later repertoire included a telescoped Ring, a possible Lady Macbeth of Mzensk...
...Philip L. Tuchman, a substantial Manhattan capitalist taking a flyer. Mr. Tuchman stoutly maintains that Stag is not an imitation of Esquire, but the cover lettering of Stag is distinctly reminiscent and its first contents- divided between mildly scabrous cartoons and mannish text by folk like Hendrik Willem van Loon, Carleton Beals, Ernest Boyd, Jack Dempsey-were unmistakable. Stag is pocket-sized, costs...