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...early Machine Age days when most U.S. citizens were artists and craftsmen because they had to be, few of them thought much about art. They made quilts, candlesticks and rocking chairs beautiful out of respect for the crafts their parents had taught them plus an instinct for simple utility. This week 111 carefully detailed watercolors of their works went on view in Washington's National Gallery, labeled art with a capital...
...celebrating two decades of pioneering, Warner's offerings include an undistinguished musical-biography (Night and Day), a couple of tired remakes (Of Human Bondage, One More Tomorrow), two thin little comedies (Janie Gets Married, Two Guys from Milwaukee). Gone to other studios are Warner's oldtime skilled craftsmen Darryl Zanuck, Hal Wallis, Ernest Lubitsch, William Dieterle, Mervyn...
Walgreen's got far more than a drugstore. Sanborn's is now a restaurant. It also sells clothes, furniture, imported perfumes, etc. It is also a wholesale agency for 29 U.S. manufacturers, and has over 1,300 native craftsmen under contract. Total Sanborn income: 20,000,000 pesos ($4,000,000) a year...
...star gazing. Tucked away in the orange groves of Escondido, in southern California, is the private observatory called El Amiga Observatorio. It is an amateur astronomer's dream, built to Friend's specifications by local craftsmen. The 16-in. telescope is one of the largest owned by an individual. During the war, when he had to cultivate, irrigate and prune his 1,265-tree, 14-acre orange grove.almost singlehanded, Friend lost some star-gazing time. He now says sadly that "some faint comets probably got away from...
...more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world's best-loved love stories. Medieval ladies embroidered scenes from the tale on fine linen and silk; medieval craftsmen enshrined the lovers on gold and ivory and wood. Tristan and Iseult were also favored by scores of poets, including Chaucer, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Tennyson, Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson and by Composer Richard Wagner, who built the legend into an opera...