Word: cynics
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...What happens when you can't be a cynic any more? What do you do?" Increasingly this has been the question asked by knife-faced Jack Levine, 41, Boston slum-born painter whose big reputation is based on such satire-veined canvases as Welcome Home, Gangster Funeral, Election Night (TIME, May 20, 1946 et seq.). His answer, Medicine Show, more than a year in the painting, is on display this week at Manhattan's Alan Gallery. It is more the work of a reformer than that of a cynic, attacking the world of ballyhoo which promotes "something people...
...Cynic Levine says that he "can't go long without an editorial problem. Before, I painted the wardheelers; now for once I'm painting the voters. What can I say about ordinary people against whom I have no rancor? I find people attractive. So they have to be gulled. Somebody's selling and everybody's gullible." To make his point, Levine has one well-curved doxie hold up a sign reading VELENO, Italian for poison...
...first had appeared at his death. Today he ranks No. 1 in Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls, but his roles as a troubled insecure youth prompted many young movie fans to identify with...
Departing from the tradition of student masters of ceremonies, Al Capp, veteran cynic of past Smokers, will usher in the talent. Others in the show will be the Dunster Dunces; comedians Larry Reeder '59 and Jerry Alch '54; Bill Bosset '59, a guitarist; and three freshman bands...
...widow does Mack the Knife and other Threepenny ditties as they should be done. Fiftyish, and after two years of starring in a successful New York revival of the work, Lotte Lenya still sings with a smoky, strangely appealing quality that always suggests the waif beneath the cynic...