Word: browed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plays of the Sea), Producer Wanger decided to show Hollywood and the world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the movie (TIME, June 10). The stunt cost Producer Wanger $50,000, left him the owner of enough good contemporary U. S. art (twelve canvases) to put him into the running as one of Hollywood's leading collectors...
...companies try to turn a profit by a low volume-high price policy. Yet their big business in discs is in the popular 35?-to-75? record field. Record manufacturers have always explained the low volume of classical record sales on the ground that there are comparatively few high-brow record buyers. But two years ago one record manufacturer, Columbia's President Edward Wallerstein, began to think there might be another explanation...
Many a great painting has sold for as much as $40,000 or more, but few engravings or prints have ever brought such a price. When really valuable prints are sold, the broker is usually a high-brow art dealer. But last week a print did bring $40,000, and the agent who made the fabulous sale was a cut-rate department store, Manhattan's R. H. Macy...
Disliked in his native Brazil because he insists on painting Negroes-who make up 30% of Brazil's population although most high-brow Brazilians like to ignore the fact-37-year-old Candido Portinari has had hard sledding in the salons of Rio de Janeiro. Second of twelve children in a family of impoverished Italian immigrant coffee workers, he got his first ideas about painting at the age of eleven, when a group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints...
Sensational murders and scandalous divorce cases PM also avoids, but in spite of this fact, and of the group of intellectuals (Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, et. al.) who assisted at its birth. PM is no high-brow sheet. Publisher Ingersoll declares frankly that it is aimed at the masses and the low-income groups (incomes of $750 to $4,500 a year). For them he provides two pages a day devoted to labor news, union activities and unemployment, also bargains in food and clothing, cartoons by some leftist artists, drawings and photographs of garment workers, Negro scrubwomen, shirt...