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...Rome and better himself. Said Newman: "I have received your letter, inviting me to preach next Lent in your church at Rome to 'an audience of Protestants more educated than could ever be the case in England.' However, Birmingham people have souls; and I have neither taste nor talent for the sort of work which you cut out for me. And I beg to decline your offer...
Wealth of 1929 Reserve Talent...
...forget that it was in opera she began her career (Italy, 1910), in opera that she made her U. S. début (Chicago, 1916), to opera that she has returned each winter for a limited number of performances. As an operatic actress Galli-Curci has only mediocre talent, too mechanical a voice for playacting. Her financial compensation, compared with that for concert-singing, is small. Doubtless influenced by both facts, Galli-Curci announced last week that she was through with the operatic stage. Manhattan's Metropolitan, she said, had released her 'from contract that she might...
...classes of Gérôme but it is hard to believe that the more rebellious young men who visited them through the Du Mauriesque streets of Paris found them dull or stuffy. The apprentice artists of that day, those who had brains as well as talent, were very ready to study what other men, similarly equipped, had accomplished before them. Matisse spent enough time in the Louvre, copying Chardin and other Old Masters long before he began to do his own work. But his own work, so soon as he showed it in the Salon...
Louis Bromfield, novelist (The Green Bay Tree, Pulitzer Prize-winning Early Autumn), with his wife, two children, maid and a visiting Englishman, went to California to write for the audible cinema. Said he: "There is intelligence and talent gathering in Hollywood as it never gathered there before. It is most hopeful, most interesting. . . . I am fed up with Europe. It gives me a stomachache. I got tired of it, bored with...