Word: brook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great reputation to draw the average Manhattan art critic from his comfortable daily beat up & down the smart art marts of 57th Street. Most of these choosy journalists were down under the Elevated last week picking their way among the packing cases and fruit stands of Greenwich Village. Alexander Brook was having another exhibition at the Downtown Gallery...
...hulking, baldish, good-natured young man with the nose and neck of a Roman Senator, Artist Brook is no stranger to the galleries. For more than a decade he has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums. In 1931 the Whitney Museum gave him its official accolade by publishing a monograph on his work. In Philadelphia last week the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was pleased to hang some of his canvases in its 129th annual show. In the Manhattan show were 22 more Brook landscapes, figures, portraits...
Meanwhile Argentina, which pegged her peso to the French franc when sterling went off gold, pegged back to sterling last week as South Americans awaited a "devaluation race" between the dollar and the pound. Stormed bellicose Baron Beaver-brook's Daily Express in London: "The revalued dollar demands an answer and the British answer should be a revalued pound. A great world currency war has been begun by President Roosevelt and he will fight America's trade battle with ?400,000,000 of conscripted gold...
...with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only six more months to live. The results of surgery in If I Were Free correspond with those of gun play in The Women in His Life, the final telephone call in Counsellor at Law. Good shot: Clive Brook's one gay moment, when he throws coins to a beggar and advises him to spend the afternoon begetting children...
...live it for you". There is a lot of that great British outdoor sport, the charity garden party. There are a hurdy-gurdy man and a kindly old cockney woman to leaven the mixture. There is some singing by Irene Dunne which clearly shows how much in love Clive Brook is when he calls it beautiful. But there is nothing new, nothing startling, nothing even mildly lascivious, to disturb the calmness and serenity of this picture of the rehabilitation of a man and a woman on the point of suicide because of marital infelicity...