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...romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes. But no knowing art student could enter the Rouault exhibition in Manhattan last week without recognizing with what extraordinary skill this same splashing of paint recreates the luminous greens, reds and blues of the stained glass with which Rouault first worked, without feeling...
...behind in the second half, whipped a forward pass in the last few minutes to beat a butter-lingered Pennsylvania team 14-to-7. Four times Harvard hurled itself against Holy Cross on the 1-yd. line. Four times Holy Cross's massive linemen held, then backed Harvard clown the field in ten plays for the winning touchdown, 10-to-7. Indiana ended a rainy day against Northwestern with a net yardage of minus...
Broadcasting stations were prepared to say last week which of the popular, high-priced performers have been able to keep sponsors: Eddie Cantor will clown again for Chase & Sanborn, starting the end of October when Ruth Etting's and Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante's time is up. Jack Pearl will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman...
Other Chinese war lords and the Government fear him. Cultured Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...private roof garden, bright with pansies, geraniums, potted shrubs. Last week Nazi staff chiefs gathered on this Hitler Olympus which overlooks the garden of President von Hindenburg. Joyously they received orders to make Germany at once what Chancellor Hitler called a "Totalitarian (One Party) State." Then they rushed clown from the roof garden to terrify the Fatherland with a series of pouncing raids which resulted in taking into custody even Herbert von Bismarck, grandnephew of the late famed Iron Chancellor...