Word: classical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manager of the Zagreb Narodno Kazalista peeked nervously through the curtain, and noticed that the theatre was half-filled with students from the Zagreb Technical College. There was nothing surprising in this, for on the stage of the Zagreb Narodna Kazalista, usually the home of grand opera and classic drama, that slick-haired, honey-colored Harlem Negress. Josephine Baker, was due to appear. What worried the manager was the lack of welcome in the mien of the young Croatian technicians. When la Backaire, as most of Europe calls her, started to dance, her nubile body girdled with a zone...
...gold medal for architecture fell to William Pope Barney (Davis, Dunlap & Barney of Philadelphia) for his American Bank & Trust Co. building in Philadelphia. This is a small structure of classic sobriety, whose regular, massy walls are relieved by exquisite bas-reliefs and a rich composite order in columns and pilasters. Because Architect Barney previously designed many another, the bank is splendidly utilitarian...
...chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep the art from stagnation, who seek the expression of modern contour and character...
...this earthy naturalism of Potter Poor's work, timeless and styleless as so many lustrous beach pebbles, which constitutes its solid, enduring value and which has quietly made its creator his reputation. Acceptance by the Metropolitan Museum, profuse with classic pottery, has dignified a career as unceremonious and sincere as that of a medieval illuminator...
Cinema stars are seldom good mathematicians. Confronted with the U. S. income tax, many of them are reduced to flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...