Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elie Siegmeister has arranged a brilliant score from the best and most genuine of our folk and popular music. Mr. Seigmeister had the vast wealth of our nation's tune treasure to draw upon, and the result is a successful, striking partnership with the color and verve of Doris Humphrey's choreography...
Sadie Thompson might have recouped many of its dramatic losses with a winning run of songs & dances. But Composer Duke's tunes are undistinguished and the dancing, although better, is uneven: a montage of scenes from Sadie's life has real choreographic color, and last season's Merry Widow team of Milada Mladova and Chris Volkoff have style and skill; but there is too much regulation South Seas wriggling and a generally poor ballet...
...year's best buy in art books went on sale last week. It is Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art (distributed by Random House; $6.50), an outsized (11-by-15-in., 5-lb.) volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...
...next three years they spent $30,000 running big, lush color ads in newspapers-all, Milt says disgustedly, "with uniformly lousy results." The trouble, he feels, was that these ads plugged the name Londonderry instead of telling people how they could make ice cream cheaper at home than they could buy it. Now Londonderry ads stick to the cold facts. This year, telling them will cost...
South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...