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Thomas Craven's "Men of Art" recently published by Simon & Schuster, has proved very popular among those men concentrating in Fine Arts who are about to take their Divisionals. The book provides an entertaining if some what biased account of the lives and achievements of the principal figures in the history of painting...
...ART?Thomas Craven?Simon & Schuster...
That creative artists and scholars of all kinds may have a year abroad, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (capital fund $4,500,000, established by onetime Colorado Senator and Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim in memory of their son who died in 1922), has in the past six years awarded 295 Fellowships. Last week, with no strings attached, $175,000 was handed out to 77 male and female Fellows. Average grant: $2,500. To China, Europe and Latin America they will go, some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet...
...general impression has gotten about that Ed Wynn is quite a card. "Simple Simon," now at the Shubert, was evidently written for the sole purpose of allowing him to maintain that reputation, for the perfect fool is on the stage most of the time enlivening a rather preposterous musical comedy with bits of gay bandinage and sly drollery...
...like Ed Wynn, and you're a cad if you don't, you had better see "Simple Simon." He is, together with Joc Cook, one of those rare souls whom age can not wither...