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...tell. The trouble is that in trying to handle their dramatic subject with a "documentary" technique the producers have come up with an overexcited document, and a drama that too often trickles away into the fine print. And yet Phenix City has the force of see-and-touch realism. The action was filmed among the same sallow bars, heat-shimmering sidewalks and deceptively innocent-looking back lots that watched it in the life. The actors try hard to weather naturally into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably about town...
...Real Is Real? Author Fast's stories are dedicated to a Communist the ory called socialist realism, which may be summarized as the notion that reality is what 'the party says it is. This theory has liberated Fast from the preoccupation that unnerves so many lesser artists-the desire to set down the precise truth. The setting of the more intelligible stories is perhaps the UTS.; the time now, or "the new order ... of hate and horror, fear, indecency and terror, the order of the atom kings and the oil kings...
...visit, sallied through an outdoor show of the Sculptors Guild with all the verve of a bull in a statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned out by Britain's Reginald Butler, who "has no conception of form." He then invited his entourage...
...Bloody Sixth. Doing blackface skits and clog dances, miming Chinese laundrymen, Swedish servant girls and balloon-pants Dutch comics, the team clicked in Boston and New York. Harrigan discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned...
...have a period flavor, and fell from favor. But with his like-minded peers Jack Levine and Ben Shahn, Evergood has come back strong in recent years, steadily, if spottily, extending the range of his art. An Evergood show today is apt to run the gamut from gloomy realism through cartoon-style satire to exuberant fantasy, and to include some of the freshest and most skillful canvases of the season...