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Arabesque. Norman-Bel Geddes is the unchallenged genius of scenic design in this country. It was he who designed The Miracle. He has, strangely enough, an urge to direct rather than design exclusively. He directed Eva Le Gallienne in a play by Mercedes d'Acosta about "Jehanne" d'Arc in Paris last summer, and set back by a couple of decades the never too robust artistic reputation of America in the eyes of the French...
Painting Ghost. Prom the north of France had came a middle-aged coal miner, Augustin Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop mining and go to draw and paint. Thinking himself feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather...
...youth in golf clothes, carrying a club in his hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes...
...working at his Joan of Arc with a new secretary. Josephine brings the notes and manuscript, bundled in a sheet. Safety-pins undone, a torrent pours on the carpet-notebooks, envelopes, visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They arc selected primarily for the information they contain cither supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...