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...schedules reduced. Metro's If Winter Comes (Deborah Kerr and Walter Pidgeon), which would normally have taken 70 days to shoot, has been finished after only 57. Fox canceled the expensive costume piece, The Black Rose, and plans to bear down on the Louis de Rochemont type of "realism," shot on location. Universal-International dropped Song of Norway, which would have been a big draw on the foreign markets. Expensive musicals generally are giving way to cheap, lucrative little comedies about domestic love...
Professional artists have sometimes met that challenge by reducing realism to photographic limits; amateurs have generally chosen an easier way out, painting unconsciously formalized, decorative interpretations of their subjects. Both methods are discussed, and well illustrated with 134 examples, in a first-rate history published this week: Wolfgang Bern's Still-Life Painting in America (Oxford...
Harnett's realism created a short-lived fashion; his prices rose to $2,000 a picture before he died in 1892, then dropped abruptly. A bachelor recluse, he is known to have granted only one interview, in the course of which he made a puzzling statement: "I do not closely imitate nature...
Brown Girl to Mother Kirk. Lewis has provided a lively and dramatic account of his spiritual safari "from popular realism to Philosophical Idealism; from Idealism to Pantheism; from Pantheism to Theism and from Theism to Christianity." In his first-and not initially successful-fantasy, The Pilgrim's Regress, he used Bunyan's device of a naive wayfarer beset by symbolic men and monsters...
...wonder why Harvard...does not show a little realism and establish courses in practical political, where able young men from all walks of life could learn such essential details as how to raise money, conduct campaigns, get elected and stay elected...