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Reclining Figure provides a well-acted catalogue of art-world highjinks, of 57th Street dealers who are chiefly double-dealers, of competitiveness that seems more like conspiracy. The play takes some amusing potshots at these methods, and in the last act finally mixes the methods with a lively madness of its own. Helped by Percy Waram's deft performance, the play also gets some fun out of the crotchety Edgerton-for whom, plainly, Philadelphia's late great Collector Albert (Argyrol) Barnes was the inspiration...
...first two acts. The play's chief asset, its nimble wisecracking, is also a liability. For it impedes the farcical explosiveness needed for so plot-heavy a yarn, and-brash even where it is funny-the wisecracking prevents Reclining Figure from being elegant or urbane. Writing of 57th Street, Playwright Kurnitz has caught Broadway's tone while missing its tempo...
...Marion's varsity fencing team will meet it other colleges this afternoon and tomorrow in New York City in the 57th Annual Intercollegiate Fencing competition...
Coach Edo Marion's fencing team will go into the 57th annual collegiate championships at New York University this Saturday with a three won and three lost record. It best Boston University 10-17, M.I.T. 13-14, and Trinity 13-14, and lost to Columbia 8-19, Army 9-18, and Yale...
...Renoir and actually have 29 of his works, of all periods, presently hanging. But paintings and painters do gradually use up and outlast their popularity ... In 1950 we here accepted the gift of Picasso's Nude Woman (1910), closely equivalent to the Tate's purchase. A 57th Street dealer tells us the going price for it would be $25,000, if anything equivalent were attainable−so a price of, say, $12,500 for the Tate Picasso would scarcely be at an inflated price...