Word: artistical
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What did the funny squiggles (see cut) mean? wondered the audience. Did the up-&-down strokes represent the music going up & down? Said a note on the program: "The cover represents an artist's earnest experiment in translating into line drawing the equivalent of a response to music. . . . The artistic success must be left to the critical judgment of the musician, the artist and the interested audience." Amused at her cover's reception, Mrs. Moody said that she had been given a set of phonograph records from Mârouf, had played them in her spare time...
...pill" has been so effectively coated that, in its current issue, Physical Culture bears a striking physical resemblance to Red Book and to Hearst's Cosmopolitan. At arm's length the cover design looks, even to Artist Bradshaw Crandell's signature, exactly like the work of Red Book's Artist McClelland Barclay. The contents include the final instalment of Warwick Deeping's serial The Ten Commandments; articles by Will Durant and the Grand Duchess Marie; stories by Grace Perkins (Night Nurse), Harold Bell Wright...
...human beings, their daft ways, their queer needs, are what fascinate Sherwood Ander son. What Anderson thinks is wrong with U. S. men (he has said it before) is im potence. To watch a Barker-Coleman spooler warper in a cotton mill, says he, is enough to make any artist feel it in himself. "Man has already accepted the power given him by the machine, this vicarious power that moves mountains, that flies beneath the sea and through the air, that transports him so swiftly from place to place, as real power. He has ac cepted...
...manager of a paint factory. But the problems of industrialism preyed on his mind. One day, halfway through dictating a letter, he blurted out .to his stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg et al.) and began to write in earnest. Highbrow critics liked his work, praised it from the start...
...crowd of penitent sinners. Last week the art world learned that Giotto's chief living disciple has also painted himself into a mural, not as a sinner, for he is a Communist and does not believe in that sort of thing, but as an artist at work...