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Johnson went abroad to study while still in his 20s, and returned to the U.S. with far more knowledge of his craft than Gauguin could boast. He painted to please his customers, in the accepted tradition of sentimental realism. Tobacco-juice brown was his favorite hue. A particularly crabbed critic once remarked that Johnson's best work "ranges from cute to nice," but it did please the customers. Johnson died famous in 1906, and descended at once into obscurity...
Hollywood noticed Jules in 1938, changed his name to John Garfield, and launched him on a type-cast screen career of playing himself-the narrow-eyed, rock-hard underdog. In his first movie, one of his lines came easily: "It stinks." He put a jarring realism into his tough-guy roles -in such movies as They Made Me a Criminal, He Ran All the Way, Tortilla Flat. The critics cheered him, and Hollywood's pinkos took him in tow. Soon, Garfield was lending his name to all sorts of Communist-front crusades...
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). For sheer beauty and realism of orchestral sound, this recording of the overture and four incidental pieces is one of the finest since the first LP was made. A kindling performance...
...somber 1869 tale about a gambler, a drunk and a couple of ladies of easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
Through Newcomer Jerry Hopper's direction, The Atomic City has a headlong pace and an on-the-spot realism with scenes shot around Los Angeles, Santa Fe and Los Alamos. Edge-of-the-seat sequence: the FBI's helicopter rescue of the kidnaped boy from the precipitous Puye Indian ruins near Los Alamos in a dizzying, cliff-hanging climax...