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...sight, no one would take Louis Bouché for a modern artist. A tall, portly gentleman of 54, he sports a mustache of Edwardian proportions, wears a black derby and totes a walking stick when in town. Bouché's paintings and his opinions about art in general may seem similarly oldfashioned, but they make sense...
...paintings, on exhibition in Manhattan last week, are unassuming oil sketches of things Bouché likes to look at: old farmhouses, city streets and hallways, suburban backyards, antique wooden toys scattered on a table, shop fronts, roadside stands, and now & then a pretty girl. Quiet scenes lovingly painted in quiet colors, they utterly lack the shock value most moderns strive for. Instead of shocking, Bouché seduces...
...that measure. No scenery is needed, and fewer than a dozen singers, none of whom needs any great vocal range or agility. The story is pathetic enough to sluice any church basement with tears. Brack Weaver loves Jennie Parsons. Her father wants her to pay attention to Thomas Bouché, who has him on a financial hook. Jennie refuses. Bouché pulls a knife on Brack. Brack kills him, is sentenced to death, escapes from jail to spend his last hours with Jennie, then goes dutifully back...
Chunky, ruddy-faced Artist Bouché looks far more like a fox hunter than a painter but betrays his ancestry by a fondness for good food and French poodles. As an additional distinction he is a member of the only firm of mural painters in the U. S.: Bouché, Saalburg & Henry. However, Partners Allen Saalburg (Central Park's Tavern on the Green) and Everett Henry (Ford Building, San Diego Fair) had no part in this prize-winning mural...
...central panel, fairly near the centre," said Artist Bouché, "are three deer and they are just grazing and standing around. I just painted them because they are so sweet." The right and left panels, which must stand alone since the central section will often be covered by a cinema screen, show an Indian and a surveyor gazing at the landscape and cowboys rounding up buffalo...