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...Howard Fuller, 46, who was killed in a sports-car accident. Born in Hartford, Conn., home of Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman but is best known for innovations in brushmaking machinery. Stout, balding Avard Fuller is a yachtsman (48-ft. ocean racing yawl) and a sports...
Gypsy (book by Arthur Laurents; music by Jule Styne; direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins) opened to breathless rave reviews. Burbled the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Best damn musical I've seen in years." Said Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "Most satisfactory musical of the season." The critical fan-farenade for what is, at best, a so-so show would be a puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever...
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...best things in this exhibit, as could be expected, are the Munch and Lautrec prince Comparing the precosity and decadence of many of the Nouveau's minor works, such as the Ricketts drawings, however, to the profundity of the masters' graphics, one sees that the influence of Art Nouveau on their style was only slight and, as regards content, the decorative school had no significant impact on either Munch or Lautrec. In short, there is no real ponit for their being exhibited...
Munch was a profound visionary and his Nouveauesque attempts at decorative simplification almost hurt his work. At his best, as he is in his famous print, Geschrei, and the marvelous tone modulations of the lithograph, Attraction, he presents a luminous picture of man's subconscious fears and desires...