Word: artistical
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...whose request was the portrait of King George by Charles Sims, R. A., removed from the Royal Academy?" asked many who saw this masterpiece of satiric elegance exhibited in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 26). Said Artist Sims who arrived in the U. S. last week: "My picture of the King, having been in the Academy for some 14 months, during which period there was not, so far as I know, any objection to it on the part of any one, was withdrawn by me at the wish of his Majesty expressed to Sir Frank Dicksee, President of the Academy, who communicated...
Engaged. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, famed comic artist of Mutt and Jeff; to La Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont, "winner of a Paris beauty contest...
...announced his play to New York playgoers, with Benvenuto Cellini as the principal character, the reviewers expected a dull and serious historical drama. Instead, they discovered an amusing farce, shot through with satire, which deals with Cellini in his youth as, "a gay blade, a likeable braggart, a great artist and a favorite with the ladies," writes one of its reviewers...
...make himself more bow-legged than Greeley Kelley, or can toe in more than Glenn Hunter, is supposed to be successful; but in reality he is merely grotesque. And he has to stay grotesque all his life. Charlie Chaplin is the only exception--he is a real artist...
These astounding confessions bid fair to prove the sensation of the literary year. Written with a frankness of self-revelation unmatched in the century-and-a-half since the famous Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, it flames with the stark, blazing spirit of the artist who has become our greatest actor...