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...sees it neat, had painted a barbershop septet in a bar so photographically that it might have been mistaken for a movie still. Spanish Frescoist Luis Quintanilla had concentrated on the women in the cast (Carmen Morales and Judith Linden), left the two-fisted action scenes for Thomas Benton, Raphael Soyer, Georges Schreiber and James Chapin...
...week and ice cream only once, they stiffly march down the hill against orders, march back up again. Some loyal Old Shads: Diplomat Robert Woods Bliss, President George M. Moffett of Corn Products Refining Co., President Henry A. Scandrett of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R., Bill Benton of Benton & Bowles, now University of Chicago vice president...
...last week Gang Busters faced a foe that got them down. Convinced that Gang Busters might be catching crooks but were not selling Cue, the liquid dentifrice, Benton & Bowles, acting for Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, decided not to renew their contract. Still shooting, still with their boots on, Gang Busters vacated the air waves, waited for Phillips H. Lord, their entrepreneur, to send them out on a new crusade...
...photography ever shown in the West (including an entire room given to the photographs of California's Edward Weston); a much-improved collection of U. S. paintings, going back to Colonial times, brightened with such talked-about contemporary works as Peter Blume's The Eternal City, Thomas Benton's Susannah and the Elders...
Said Director John Ford when he saw these real live painters: "This is the damnedest miscasting I ever saw." The cast: blond, amiable, plodding Grant Wood; dark, volatile Thomas Benton; shy, diminutive, big-eared Raphael Soyer, with the faraway, downhearted look of his old men and nudes; tweedy, sophisticated George Biddle; big, pink-faced Ernest Fiene; aristocratic James Chapin; athletic bachelor Georges Schreiber; big, gruff Portraitist Robert Philipp; dynamic Luis Quintanilla, famed Spanish-refugee fresco painter...