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...worked only on sunny days, drank beer on days when it rained? With no projection room in which to view "rushes" he used an immense amount of film-160.000 ft. The picture, not yet publicly released, is called Viva Mexico. It relates three incidents, each with different characters. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson, after seeing parts of Viva Mexico: "The first is a tragedy of the Mexican peons under the Diaz regime; the second a romance of the master class during the same period and the third a story of one of the camp followers in the army of the revolution...
This year U. S. painting has at last attained an international vogue. The opening of the Whitney Museum started it. Loan exhibitions of U.S. paintings are touring Europe. The Louvre has bought a Thomas Eakins. Famed French Critic Waldemar Georges wrote in surprise six months ago: "Why have we not seen these pictures before? . . . Why do their young men keep swarming to Montparnasse?" For the first time the Venice Bienniel Exhibition of Modern Art will have a permanent building for U. S. painting when it opens in June. Only last month the London Times started a movement to devote...
Lest the Treasury Department consider Typographer Dwiggins merely a destructive critic he went further still. The back of the book is devoted to an explanation of what he would do about it with designs full size, printed in colors, for the currency of the mythical Republic of Antipodes: a five crown note; a page of postage stamps; a new cancellation stamp; a design for printed stamped envelopes; a metered mail stamp; a page of internal revenue stamps for tobacco and cigarets...
...interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford...
...Author? For 20 years a musical and dramatic critic droop-headed Sophisticate Van Vechten wrote his first novel, Peter Whiffle, at 42. Since then The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Spider Boy, Parties have ripened his racy fame. Besides memories he collects autographs, postcards, pamphlets, book jackets, cats...