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This week the well-worn Providence, R. I. public library offered an unusual exhibition by a gifted man who calls himself a "tramp printer." It will be shown later in New England, Midwest and Far West cities. Containing 768 items, the collection ranges from the classic Oxford Lectern Bible and some 400 other books to waggish menus, from paintings to a "No Trespassing" sign. The "tramp printer" is Bruce Rogers, greatest modern book designer. At 68, a trim, blue-eyed, steady-handed oldster who might pass for a waggish sailing captain, Bruce Rogers is to U. S. book-designing...
...Importance of Being Earnest" is pleasantly reminiscent of England's upper crust before the age of umbrella politics and Lady Astor. Fragrant, trivial, witty, and as unreal as Dresden China, this horsehair classic of Oscar Wilde's is a harmless sedative for 1939 hangovers...
...permitted to make a public appearance so early in the season, practically all the top-crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite was Airman William Boeing's Porter's Mite, the handsome bay colt who outshone all his contemporaries in the classic Belmont Futurity last autumn. Almost as popular was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Impound, son of famed Sun Beau, who beat Porter's Mite in a short handicap race at Santa Anita two weeks before. The twelve others, proudly prancing to the starting line, were expected to fight...
...Universal). Confronted with the task of making a picture in which W. C. Fields is the star, most Hollywood producers harass themselves and Mr. Fields by trying to chivy him into playing the part written for him, instead of letting him alone in his own classic interpretation of W. C. Fields. In this case, Producer Lester Cowan shrewdly devised a new technique. Instead of paying his stars a salary, he persuaded them to work on a profit-sharing basis, had Fields write his own story and let matters take their course. The result was that the shooting...
...flourishes by truing up ever more wisely with new and unblinkable social conditions. Liberal artists conceive the tradition of the fine arts as involving a like growth and adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa. got his nickname, his millions...