Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make-believe State of Zagnira a young medical student inspires a whole troupe of her family and friends to declare their belief in God although they know that under their totalitarian government that declaration means death. They die. A timely subject, handled with some suspense but little art...
...Critics have spanked him. The public has often been exasperated and puzzled. But his position remains unchallenged. Critics, after filing their complaints, hastily add that Odets is his country's most promising playwright. Waiting for Lefty has circled the globe. Odets is still the White Hope, still Art, still News...
...railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...
Album of Russian Modern Music (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, Julius Ehrlich conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Two years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin and his ministry of art, worried about the trend Russian music was taking, flayed the works of Russian modernists for reflecting "leftist tendencies." Those curious to know what it was that worried Comrade Stalin will find it in Mossolov's pounding Steel Foundry and Meytuss' cacophonous Dnieper Water Power Station, both included on these discs...
Married. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 47, most handsome original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York City's Planning Commission;* and his onetime assistant, Grace Falke, 30, director of National Youth's art projects; by Mayor LaGuardia; in Manhattan. Mr. Tugwell's first wife, Florence, mother of his two grown daughters, divorced him three months...