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...Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...
...intervals, Nat Karson designs a new show for the Radio City Music Hall. On Monday he makes his rough sketches, on Tuesday helps daub the sets for the Music Hall stage (world's biggest), where a line that looks threadlike to the audience may be six inches wide. Wednesday there is an early-morning rehearsal. After the Hall closes at midnight, the scenery is hung and lighting effects tried, followed by a dress rehearsal, with the full Rockette chorus, until the doors open at 10:30 Thursday morning. "How often I want to call Mr. Roosevelt," sighs Nat Karson...
Governor George Howard Earle III presumably did not rise from Republican riches to eminence as Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...
...like Mr. Santayana's father; and though it is not true, as many have thought, that Santayana tried to reveal his own personality through Oliver and Mario still they do reflect a bit of his general character. It seems to me that Mr. Santayana, like Oliver, is deeply moral. Daub his philosophy what you will, there is always the moral flavor. It is this morality that bridges his materialism with his mysticism. But this is all another story...
Negroes who want to hide their markings daub themselves with black coffee, potassium permanganate solution or dilute iodine. Will Pickens White last week indicated that he would never tint his whiteness. Said he: "God intended to let people know what He could do. Now that I am white, I would rather stay that...