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...variance, Artist Segall's work, like himself, is meticulous, disciplined, treats trouble tranquilly. His paintings have volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...
...been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strip. Mom blackened little Joe's tow head with burnt cork, and for the next seven years Joe Yule Jr. made 78 Mickey McGuire pictures at $200 a picture. He also had his name legally changed to Mickey McGuire. But in 1932 Producer Larry Darmour shelved the series...
Sargent has already offered the field which he feels is far superior to the turfs at Yale and Princeton, for the polo intercollegiates. Previously, these games have always been played around New York or at Burnt Mills, New Jersey. It is Sargent's plan to hold these matches at Westwood every year...
...lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard...
...Moonshine!" roared Mr. Frankensteen. "We are not trying to run your plants, and you know it. We are insisting only that in your operation of the plants you shall not treat your employes as just some more machinery to be used, burnt up and then thrown on the scrap heap...