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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
...Wednesday morning, a dogged little army of free-lance cartoonists trudges the rounds of magazine offices in midtown Manhattan to hawk their wares. They are the funnymen who draw the little back-of-the-book panels that have put millions of readers into the habit of leafing through the ad pages. Grateful advertising men call them "stoppers...
...following fall, Al Jolson, between recorded songs in Warner's The Jazz Singer, did some ad-lib talking: "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks. Listen to this." Audiences were enchanted. After Warner's 1928 Lights of New York, the first all-talking feature, more than a thousand movie theaters throughout the U.S. hastily wired for sound. So did every major Hollywood studio...
Fifty-nine years ago, a Paris art student wrote excitedly to his parents: "I'm earning my own living!" He had just sold a poster for a champagne ad. Since then critics have called Pierre Bonnard everything from "insistently disagreeable" to "the greatest living painter." Last week in Paris Pierre Bonnard was having his greatest triumph...
...critics readily obliged. The Mirror's tribute: "One of the . . . nastiest . . . exhibits ever to contaminate a theater." The Post's: "[The] ad's wrong, son. It's the worst play that ever hit any place...