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...Manhattan's Museum of the American Indian and Museum of Natural History, Washington's Smithsonian and Chicago's Field Museum, the Museum of Modern Art's specimens were a mere shop window. But artistically they were the cream of what U. S. and Alaskan Indian craftsmen have produced, from the prehistoric Tennessee mound builders to the present-day Navaho rugmakers and sand-painters. Looking over the assortment, which included such highly skilled items of sculpture and mask work as those shown on the two preceding pages, gallery-goers were inclined to agree that U. S. Indians...
They were mostly three-or four-story structures-musty headquarters for centuries of proud merchant traders, insurance brokers and craftsmen who preferred tradition to comfort. Here & there stood the steel skeleton of a modern building, its girders fantastically warped and bulged by heat. Fleet Street, mecca of British journalism, was badly hit, and behind it stood the blackened hulk of the Associated Press building. St. Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion...
...sporting books and prints in its Manhattan clubhouse. Within its print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded in 1884 by craftsmen and wealthy collectors to improve the then wretched state of U. S. bookmaking. Its name commemorates a great 16th-Century connoisseur of covers & colophons, Jean Grolier de Servier. Viscount d'Aguisy...
Rudolf Diesel was proud, sensitive, generous, an engineering genius, but not endowed with much money sense. He was a man of the world who spoke fluently not only German but French and English. His father, sprig of a Bavarian Protestant family which had produced craftsmen and tradesmen for generations, was a restless bookbinder who went from Augsburg to Paris. Rudolf, born in Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography...
...accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another. But the film's talky treatment of the problems of inconstancy does much to prove that movies...