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Jack Towers, who began his flying career in 1911 and has stuck with aviation ever since, has never been a crier-out against the Navy's slowness in exploiting air power. But he has been a privately bitter critic. In 1942 the Navy shipped him out to Pearl Harbor as Commander of Air in the Pacific, a high-sounding title for a smothered, largely administrative assignment. Now Aviator Towers, well out of the doghouse, towers at the right hand of the Pacific's canny commander-in-chief, Admiral Chester Nimitz...
Mickey's first (and presumably last) one-man show was held last week in Manhattan. On display were 15 canvases that one anonymous critic called "a new kind of primitive-there's never been nothing like them before." Mickey painted them after hours in his Elizabeth, NJ. saloon. All are for sale at suitably artistic prices: $1,500 and up. Sales to date...
Antiques. Best-liked British plays are both revivals: Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter...
...high-hatted critic of the London Times meditated upon Durante's nose...
...exception to the rule that books about movies are even duller than movies about books is A Pictorial History of the Movies (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Its 700-odd movie stills have been assembled by Bryant Hale and Marcelene Peterson, and more conspicuously credited to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor. His touch is evident in the captions, which outline the history of U.S. films from the scandalous The Widow Jones of 1896 to Mrs. Miniver. By turns touching, noble, hilarious, incredible, the pictures in this book have the endearing dignity and fascination of a gigantic family album. Reproduced on this page, reading...