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...Harlequinade, a hammy theatrical troupe, while rehearsing Romeo and Juliet, encounters all manner of real-life crises, from bigamy to illegitimate children. Faced with such stupendous greasepaint problems as who shall stand where and who shall wear what, the stage folk quickly brush the non-stage problems aside. A relentlessly jolly burlesque, A Harlequinade is occasionally funny...
...over, there were language classes on some of the boats to brush up fading high school French and German; on the trip back, one boat's students were teaching English--to 200 DP's headed for Canada. Meetings and conferences sprang up in abundance. The moment one found a quiet corner, it would turn out that some sort of meeting was about to begin there, on anything from Scandinavian socialism to the German Baroque...
...Actor Humphrey Bogart was sitting, in person, in Manhattan's not quite haut monde saloon, the Stork Club. It was the hour when it is virtually impossible to decide whether a rumba band goes bonkle bonkle tonk, or tonkle tonkle bonk; when waiters' arches ache, and blondes brush the hair out of their eyes in a queenly way. Bogart, who was sipping happily on a drink, decided to send out for two 22-lb. stuffed pandas...
...illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping himself in its character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam...
This month state-fair boards across the U.S. are handing out prize money to brush-and-chisel wielders as well as to cattle breeders and mincemeat experts. In most states painting and sculpture are displayed with the poultry, corn and hogs that sunburned fair visitors take...