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...brace the plot, Bella and Sam Spewak, Shakespeare's collaborators on the book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
...delighted to find my portrait, done under the skillful brush of Artzybasheff, on the cover of TIME, Nov. 2. It was an abstract rather than realistic portrait, of course ; for clear realism would have shown an Omnica bag, Norwood light meter, Exakta VX, and three photo-all lenses with including travel a stains from being logged 95,000 miles through twelve countries and four Pacific islands. But as a symbolic portrait it was superb . . . W. NORWOOD BRIGANCE Crawfordsville...
White soon became a forbidding figure at Treasury. A stocky little man with a cropped brush mustache that twitched when he was nervous, he lunged around the corridors with a jerky gait. He was a ruthless martinet with subordinates, bluntly critical of those he considered his intellectual inferiors-and that included just about everyone. He was intolerant: a man who opposed Harry White was likely to fall under suspicion of being "pro-Nazi." He worked and schemed constantly, slept and played little. Said one of his associates: "He ranged everywhere, like a waterbug...
Levine went right on wagging and jabbing his brush at social ills. Meanwhile, he made himself a master of expressionist techniques, mingling hot and cold colors as delightfully as Kokoschka, and squeezing and stretching figures as boldly as Soutine. Last year he began work on a huge canvas of a gangster funeral, which was frankly meant to spotlight political corruption of the big cities. Among the mourners he put "two widows, one very, very shapely," and "the chief of police, come to pay his last respects-a face at once porcine and acute...
...from the raccoon coat continues as the bulky great-coat of recent years gives way to lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. The crowning glory of the college man's hat also seems on the down grade. One style, however, the Tyrolean green alpine model with feather brush and hidden ear-muffs, is gaining popularity so quickly that one expects to hear yodels echoing from the steps of Widener...