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...Island (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is fiery Elmer Rice in unembattled mood, painting a gaudy picture of Manhattan, telling the story of youth's slow struggle and love's young dream. The play is pleasant, picturesque, shallow. Midwestern Boy (John Craven), who has been pounding the city pavements, meets New England Girl (Betty Field), who has been eluding the city Lotharios, high up in the Statue of Liberty. They do not meet till the start of Act III, but the end of Act III runs true to form...
TREASURY OF ART MASTERPIECES- Edited by Thomas Craven-Simon and Schuster...
...Editors Craven and Boswell, both grassrooters for the current U. S. school, preach an esthetic doctrine of flag-waving. Writes Critic Craven, himself a Kansan: "These vigorous Americans . . . have achieved a body of painting . . . which has announced the beginning of a distinctly American style." Editor Boswell makes the eagle scream louder, says contemporary U. S. painting is "bred of politico-economic nationalism and the concurrent resentment against the high-pressure dumping of inferior foreign art on the home market." His small-town merchant advice: "Patronize your local art exhibitions...
Wood's Woman With Plants (see cut, p. 57) was picked by both Craven and Boswell. Because it confines itself by its title, Modern American Painting, in its color reproductions, gives a vivid and telescopic view of the changing U. S. from 1738 to 1939. Biographies of the 68 artists whose work is reproduced help make this book the most complete and authoritative record of the American School...
...Simon & Schuster ($10). Of some 40 art titles published in the past month, outstanding have been: A TREASURY or AMERICAN PRINTS-Thomas Craven-Simon & Schuster ($3.95): †HAVE WE AN AMERICAN ART-Edward Alden Jewell-Longmans ($2.75); GIST OF ART-John Sloan-American Artists Group ($3.75); AN AMERICAN ARTIST'S STORY-George Biddle -Little, Brown ($4); RUBENS-Phaidon Edition-Oxford University Press...