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...plain gallery-goers in gasps of sincere tribute to the vivid colorings, the exquisite craftsmanship which had reproduced even the blurred edges of pastel strokes in faithful detail. Uninitiates might eye Pablo Picasso's Inspiration and find that famed artist's characteristic distortions no more inspiring in cloth than on canvas. But then they could turn with genuine pleasure to Jean Lurçat's bright, graceful Le Ruisseau-a stream of blue and white wandering through a pale green meadow beside great-petaled flowers of red, gold, black and green...
...peach-tree. The strong April sun broke its way through the leaves and made spots on her shining white apron. It was very hot, and Alice's head began to hurt her the way it did when she stayed shut up too long at school. Lifting a small cloth-covered book from her lap, Alice turned over, and lay on her stomach, dangling her feet above...
...contemptuous or delighted buyers have differed hugely; most seemed to have been cut on the bias. Superimposed or pieced together, however ingeniously, they made little better than a crazy quilt. But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth. As all political tailors knew, it was the painstakingly honest work of an old reliable firm: Webb & Webb. Readers of Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation? might not like the pattern it showed, but at last they could be sure they had at least seen the whole...
...into the swing of Russian experimentation. Play was called The Iron Flood. Spectators were kept waiting in the theatre's foyer until suddenly two actors dressed like soldiers went tearing through the crowd carrying water buckets. There upon doors opened into an auditorium domed with sky blue cloth. At one end was a large earthen mound. On it was camped a detachment of Russian soldiers, their women and children. On two sides were seats. "We spent four hours with the Red Army in the field- that was all," recalls Observer Houghton. "The wounded dragged themselves across your feet...
...Elgin, Ill. last week inmates of the State Hospital for the Insane gazed appreciatively at a newly completed 25-ft. mural showing other inmates weaving cloth. It was paid for with $2,000 of Government money, kept 14 WPArtists busy for four months. Their instructions were to use only the softest shades of primary colors, to "avoid all exciting combinations...