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...keynote: "Painless progress can be made by he individual and by humanity as a hole." A bushel of recent cases of Christian Science healing were read to the gathering-including total recovery from poliomyelitis, abdominal cancer, rheumatic ever, dislocated hips diagnosed as beyond recovery and accident injuries pronounced tal. No membership figures are ever issued, but what figures there were showed the faith to be flourishing; 34 new branches were established...
...quiet and genial as ever: "One of us will just do something, and the others will dig it and remember. We've had only two rehearsals, and on the second one we did nothing but sit around and talk." With a feather-fingered young guitarist named Tal Farlow, who after two years plays as if he is reading Red's mind, and a bass player (Clyde Lombardy) who is always there with the beat, everything they touched sounded like softly accented conversation on a bench in the park...
Finally, after the war, he settled down in the Cezanne country near Aix. There, said Tal-Coat, he found himself at last, and "found the world in the shade of the ever-changing mountain mists of la Sainte Victoire." Taking to the woods, he studied "the tangled roots of the pine trees . . . the silence of the rock." Later in his studio he tried to catch the forest's "union of space and movement" on canvases which he covered with patchy, off-white backgrounds, spots of green, grey, mauve and brown...
...forest abstractions which hung in Paris' small Galerie de France last week had all the space that anyone could ask for. Spare and faintly colored, they resembled at their best delicate Chinese landscapes; at worst, they looked as though Tal-Coat had been cleaning some not-very-dirty brushes on his canvas...
Parisian critics agreed that Tal-Coat was indeed an artist "away from the current of his epoch." Instead of sophisticated posturings, said one, there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...