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...display the elaborately splendid painting opposite. Begun by Jan van Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...
...rented (galleries deduct the paid rental from the purchase price). Result: the art rental idea has taken hold both of commercial galleries and of museums interested in helping local artists, and is now sweeping the country. New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara all boast rental services, and they are by no means all. Last fortnight Chicago's Art Institute joined the parade; last week the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center did the same...
Vocally, Libby does well with many of her blues and gets something quick and laughing into lighter things like Cindy and Roily Trudum. For a classic ballad like Barbara Allen, she has neither enough simplicity nor enough style; but the chief trouble with the evening as a whole is the unharmonized nature of the evening as a whole. In not giving a plain recital for those who want blues and ballads straight, Libby accepts the challenge of the far more precarious one-woman show. And she hasn't the expert showmanship; she just isn't actress or sorceress...
...wildest summer. I came back first class with a lady tennis player from Santa Barbara just to study the decadent bourgeoisie. I engaged in a Dada manifestation and helped put on a Stravinski ballet. I interviewed Abd-el-Krim in Morocco and wrote a play called Shall Be the Human Race but there's nothing worth seeing in Europe except the Ballet Russe and the révolution mondiale...
Executive Suite. Star-studded scramble for the presidency of a big corporation; with William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, etc. (TIME...