Word: brice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fanny Brice, radio's famed brattish Baby Snooks, is also an ardent collector of artistic "Snooksology"−drawings and paintings by children. Like paintings by the insane, paintings by children, she believes, are often inspired by a freshness of visual impact and a perception of significant detail which other artists lose by remaining sane and growing up. Last week young & old Baltimoreans could see what Miss Brice means, at an exhibit of 41 drawings and paintings selected from more than 100 "masterpieces" by children, which for 20-odd years she has been assembling in Europe...
...charm of many of Miss Brice's pictures was due to the children's intense observation of minutiae-the weave of fabrics, the crisp precision of leaves against the sky. Strangely enough, only one of the pictures showed an airplane, perhaps because most of the collection was assembled so long before...
...earned it. For five years, on the Maxwell House program (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.) Frank Morgan, 53, has played a romantic, sciolistic old rogue. But he has been only half of the show. The other half is Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice). Time and familiarity have some what dulled Snooks, but Morgan, pinching the girls with the tone of his voice, has grown with his own infectiously timed brand of not-too-naughty humor. Says he, confiding his nautical experiences: "I al ways like to have some port in every sweetheart...
...never at a loss for a sly ad lib. or a vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor $5,000 to $7,000 weekly...
...works of Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes called the finest intelligence the world has ever produced, have had some curious outcroppings. Examples:>A Hollywood portrait of Fanny Brice painted in the pose of the Mona Lisa...