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...Manhattan's most oddly located churches is Calvary Baptist, a stronghold of pure Fundamentalism in West 57th Street within denouncing distance of bars, smart shops, noisy apartment hotels, racy night clubs. Sounding board of the late loud Dr. John Roach Straton, Calvary is seldom without a guest evangelist who fills its auditorium not with the demimonde from nearby streets but with mousy Manhattanites in no need of evangelization. Last week when the news papers were still carrying dispatches from Tennessee where a nine-year-old girl had become a bride (TIME, Feb. 8, 15), news hawks turned...
...free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From its big old red brick building, it has sent out 135,000,000 Bibles and texts in 972 languages and dialects to all parts...
Modern painting is less than 30 years old in the U. S. It has already produced a slim collection of artists whose eminence no intelligent critic in 1936 would dream of challenging. Manhattan's 57th Street, commercial centre of the U. S. art world, last week decorously hailed the opening of the Season with memorial exhibitions of the work of two of these recently canonized masters. At the Kleemann and Keppel Galleries respectively appeared the works of the late Arthur Bowen Davies, the late George Wesley Bellows...
Appropriately housed in the bright Bignou Gallery high over the Rolls-Royce showroom on Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled...
Along Manhattan's 57th Street strollers last week spotted in the window of the Ferargil Galleries a carefully painted cutout figure of a sandwich man in a pot hat, holding a sign, just as they have done for 40 years, people wondered out loud whether the little man was not a colored photograph. There was only one person who could have painted it. After eleven years, white-haired, handsome Maxfield Parrish was holding an exhibition...