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...born Hovsep Pushman, can still turn down an offer of $6,000 for one of his small canvases. Last fortnight, in fact, Artist Pushman did so. The values which move Mr. Pushman to such renunciations include the quality of the homes into which his pictures go, not every rich decor being fit for a Pushman. Of the Pushman values, the artist last week gave glimpses in the first interview he has ever given the press...
...extremely odd coincidence, this roof-blowing work formed the decor of a quiet library reading room...
About 400 servicemen attend each week. While the show is on the air, Miss Scully's "blind dates," assembled from NBC's stenographic staff, from U.S.O., from other sources, form a part of the stage decor. They are told to dress "fluffily, but not elaborately or formally." The dance afterwards lasts until 11 or 11:30, and under the knowing Scully eye no unfortunate incidents have yet occurred; no girls have wept; no fists have flown...
Bowden Broadwater's story, "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon," is an amusing account of domestic disaster in the genteel atmosphere of the best residence of a southern city. Mr. Broadwater's interest in decor is always a pleasure to come upon, and his use of this kind of detail here is very successful. If it sometimes seems that he conceives of his characters as mere extensions of decorators' fashions, that is at least a novel way of conceiving of characters; and in this story it is most appropriate of the several devices which characterize Broadwater's original satiric tone...
...anyone who saw Hedy Lamarr in Algiers, it is plain that M.G.M. is on the side of M. Delaroch. In mood and decor, Lady of the Tropics is a faithful echo of the Wanger picture that introduced Cinemactress Lamarr to the U. S., made her the most celebrated siren of the screen since Theda Bara. After spending a small fortune on a picture with Spencer Tracy that had to be junked, M.G.M. handed Hedy and Screenwriter Ben Hecht over to Producer Sam Zimbalist, fresh from Tarzan Finds A Son. Practical Mr. Zimbalist, correctly figuring that audiences would like a picture...