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...view in Dorland Hall in London was a 14-panel mural, painted on wood, entitled A Pageant of Beauty. Mrs. Lewis had paid for it to advertise her cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, with four assistants to do the cultural research and most of the painting, had designed and executed it. Impressed, Soviet Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ivan Michaelovich Maisky, had asked Mrs. Lewis to exhibit it in Russia where Communist maidens are beginning to take a livelier interest in prettying up. Since Mrs. Lewis has no intention of starting a Moscow Elizabeth Arden Salon, she refused his request...
...with the panel, she has supplied a handbook of footnotes and acknowledgments to the museums from which Mrs. Thomas purports to have obtained cultural research. Thus, beginning at the extreme left in ancient Egypt, Queen Nefertiti (adapted from a bust in Berlin's Staatliche Museum) is to be seen putting on lipstick while her subjects do calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists...
...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
...housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller Center panel. For her he predicts a great future...
Pretty, angry-mouthed Grace Greenwood, 27, undertook to slap the theme of Motiey on two walls of the main lobby. Her first panel takes money from mine to mint, shows Mexican laborers drilling, digging, trucking ore; smelters refining and casting the metal; and finally, a porcine bureaucrat receiving and counting the bars. Last week Grace Greenwood finished drawing the design on the second wall, taking money from mint to rich man's pocket...