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...apply for the annual award now offered for the first time by the Caruso Association Memorial Foundation. The successul applicant myst be an American citizen or citizeness, must be between 20 and 27 years of age, must be able to sing the complete roles of at least three full-length opera, must have general education, dramatic ability, a serious attitude, must need financial assistance, must pass a voice trial. The Foundation already has a capital of $24,000 which will be invested and the income applied to The Fellowship. The balance for this year has been pledged by the former...
...were the order of the day on her first appearance as a witness. On her second appearance she was composed, but inclined to burst into giggles. "Daugherty's giggling nemesis," one newspaper called her. Tall, handsome, 30-odd, with her dark brown hair bunched over her ears, wearing a full-length black sealskin coat?so was she described...
...signed by the author. Only 950 copies are supposed to exist. The few printed pages describe Mr. Hergesheimer's Calvinistic grandsires, his Calvinistic upbringing, and what he believes to have been his escape from Calvinism. Said Elmer Davis, critic: "As the first 10,000 words of a full-length autobiography, to sell at $2, it would deserve praise...
...Portrait of Lady Diana Crosbie, daughter of Lord George Sackville, one of Sir Joshua's greatest full-length portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...
Sorolla was an accomplished portrait painter, but his special eminence comes from his handling of sunlight and water in combination. His figure pieces at the seashore are full of flowing line, quivering color, spacious luminosity. Typifying these qualities are the fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging...