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...earn in a lifetime. When Representative Sol Bloom, director general of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission." Other Congressmen, quite willing to pose as art critics, called Mr. Christy the greatest living portrait painter, panned his portrait...
...planted as stiffly as figures in a family portrait in a maple-colored adobe interior. Typical of the surprises hidden among the 417 pieces in the show was the work of 42-year-old Novelist Ramon Guthrie, Scherzo from the Proud City: a reverential study of 19th Century French Critic Sainte-Beuve...
...outside of Italy, the new Italian school of concert composers never raised enough dust to make a critic sneeze. And the Italians themselves obstinately continued to prefer their Toscas, Pagliaccis and Cavalleria Rusticanas...
Most thoroughgoing biography of Puccini, to date, is that of Austrian Critic Richard Specht, which appeared in an English translation five years ago (Alfred Knopf). To it was added last week a genial book of personal reminiscence by Vincent Seligman,t son of Puccini's close friend, Sybil Seligman, a British-born musical amateur. Without attempting to rival Biographer Specht's scholarship. Biographer Seligman gives a more intimate picture of a fastidious, cultured musician who was loved by a fearsomely jealous wife, who himself loved motorboats, feminine society, high-powered automobiles...
...Including sometimes-sensible Critic George Bernard Shaw, who hailed Puccini as the successor of the great Giuseppe Verdi, when Puccini's Manon Lescaut was given its first London performance...