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Besides a fine bathing beach, Santa Monica, Calif. also boasts an extraordinary Mayor named William H. Carter and a large imposing public library. Last week Mayor Carter went into the Santa Monica public library to re-open what in a fortnight has become the gaudiest main reading room on the Pacific Coast and to dedicate the largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John...
Macdonald Wright was born in Charlottesville, Va. in 1890, went first to Santa Monica when he was 11. At 15 he and his brother Willard were expelled from school. The next year found young Wright an art student in Paris where he made two lifelong friends. Thomas Benton and Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition...
...Synchromist Wright returned to the U. S. Four years of New York nearly killed him. A nervous wreck, he went back to Santa Monica on crutches where he cured himself with the climate and a sober study of Buddhism. For many years director of the Santa Monica Community Theatre and the Los Angeles Art Students' League, he gradually gave up beard, long hair and artistic mannerisms, adopted a hard, exact manner of drawing that showed a strong Oriental influence...
...less than anyone else on the screen, Luise Rainer was next advertised as the private discovery of William Powell, because he was generous enough, when the picture was completed, to recommend her for co-star billing. A student of archeology, sculpture and the ballet, Miss Rainer lives in Santa Monica...
Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps...