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...Critics found in Mrs. McCormick's portraits?with one exception all painted in the impressionistic vein with broad brush strokes, small attention to detail? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive...
...present at Langley Field last week was NACA's most violent critic, Publisher Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest. In his March issue Publisher Tichenor reopened his recurrent bombardment of the committee, charging that it fails in its stated purpose "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight"; that the committee is not creative, merely a measuring agency of work originated by others; that its $1,488,000 Government appropriation could be saved by merger of the laboratories with those of the Bureau of Standards, the Army Research Department at Wikht Field, or the Naval...
...Kent, England in 1894, Author Morgan was trained as an officer in the Royal Navy,.served in the Atlantic and China fleets. After the War he studied at Oxford, was graduated with honors in modern history in 1921. Since 1926 he has been the London Times's dramatic critic. Married to Authoress Hilda Vaughan he dedicates The Fountain to her. Other books: My Name is Legion, Portrait in a Mirror...
Only two political cartoons were shown in his first U. S. exhibition last week, The House Restaurant in Washington, and Senate-The Republican Cloakroom. Of the latter the New York Evening Post's critic Margaret Bruening wrote: "It is an indictment of democratic government that is appalling, yet its poignant significance does not obscure the delightful quality of its humor." The other cartoons shown were street scenes of Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because...
...Composer Kern's latest scores (Show Boat, Sweet Adeline, The Cat and the Fiddle) have profited by Composer Robert Russell Bennett's orchestrations. Composer Bennett, collaborating now on an opera with Critic Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker (TIME, May 23) uses few superficial tricks but he goes underneath the songs, inserts inner voices, counterpoint. He orchestrated Of Thee I Sing for George Gershwin, Face the Music for Irving Berlin, The Band Wagon for Arthur Schwarz, all Broadway hits...