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...last years of Paul Claudel have been a little baffling to the Japanese. Here was a hard, shrewd statesman of the first rank who would draw a shapeless caricature for his dinner partner and remark with emphatic sincerity: "Madame, I would give my whole position and perhaps half my talent could I learn to draw or sculp...
...other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
Since 1905 a foul blot has stained the national checker escutcheon. In that year a team of British thinkers journeyed to Boston, administered an overwhelming defeat to the U. S. players. Last week in Manhattan the blot was removed. The U. S. team swamped the combined talent of England and Scotland, hopping to victory in each of the twelve rounds played...
Although at first a painter, he was drawn to architecture, devoting his younger talent to what has been described as the greatest monument of "Wedding-cake" architecture in the world, the Cathedral of Milan...
Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Playwright Luigi Pirandello, like the Devil, seduces the idle. After years of temptation, the Theatre Guild succumbed last week to spending some unengaged time and talent on special matinees of a cerebral shadow dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another...