Word: angels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the great voice trumpeted behind him, how must the Saint, on the verge of the Apocalypse, have looked? That was the question Sculptor John Angel has spent eight months trying to answer. Angel, one of the top church sculptors, had been commissioned to carve Saint John for the central doorpost of Manhattan's slowly building Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which was originally designed to be Romanesque and is gradually growing up to be Gothic...
...Episcopalian himself, Angel has done sculpture for Manhattan's Roman Catholic St. Patrick's and Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Like most of his work, Angel's new eight-foot Saint John is 13th Century Gothic in style, but, says Angel, "I use all my knowledge of the human figure, so what we call Gothic is Gothic with a difference." The difference is sometimes too marked to miss. Like most attempts to recreate in one century what came naturally in another, Angel's work has more finish than feeling. It suffers from a kind...
...score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
...Kracauer's is a big, impressive, careful piece of work. The book will appeal most to those who remember such German films as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Blue Angel, The Beggars' Opera-some of the most glamorous and exciting movies of their time. But Dr. Kracauer's prose is pretty heavy; and his argument, though persuasive, is not always proved with scientific finality. Like some other psyche-interpreters-professional and amateur-he tends to overinterpret. It is interesting to speculate on what the same sort of intense look at Hollywood films would tell the doctor about...
...Marshall Field backed out? He had his hands full, trying to make a go of his Chicago Sun and New York PM. He would still be a stockholder, he said, though not the angel, of USA. Said Field: Cousins has "an excellent, very attractive dummy. I have no criticism on that score at all. Frankly it just doesn't seem to be the right time. ... As matters stand, I already have enough things...