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...Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, left the care of his 180-acre farm entirely to his widow. For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting...
...entered the local country drugstore to buy some pills. There Inventor Caldor, who was also an art lover, saw one of Mrs. Moses' pictures standing on a counter, asked who painted it, went to see her. When he offered to pay good money for four of her pictures, Anna Moses was surprised. She was still more surprised when, two years later, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art exhibited three of them, and sober Manhattan critics called her an "authentic American primitive...
Last week, at Manhattan's new little Galerie St. Etienne, Anna Moses had her first one-man show. It consisted of 35-odd paintings, nearly her whole output, still primly mounted in the old looking-glass frames from the Moses attic. Sophisticated Manhattan gallery-goers were charmed by her carefully stippled flower beds, speckled snowstorms, shutter-green mountains. Again Manhattan critics raved: "A challenge to scores of more sophisticated painters," compared her canvases to those of famed German exile George Grosz...
From then on Grover Jones kept at the career, amassed more than 350 screen credits. He directed a quickie for a comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with...
Born. To Prince Louis Charles Marie Léopold Robert of Bourbon-Parma, 39, brother of former Empress Zita; and Princess Maria Francesca Anna Romana, 25, youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III; their first child, a son; in Rome...