Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel and Auden's poem -made a dead-center philosophical attack on the real problems of 1941. But sometimes the philosophies have not the last word. One writer who is less pretentiously touched with genius than any of them is Ludwig Bemelmans. His Ecuadorian travelogue, The Donkey Inside ($3), was the most delightful book of a far from delightful year. This month he published his even better-written Hotel Splendide ($2.50), a collection of waiters' eye-views of life in a great hotel...
Then he went after theaters, tacked them on like tails in a donkey game. By 1932 Paramount was a complex mass of 500 subsidiaries, 1,310 theaters costing about $150,000,000, a payroll (counting nephews) of 29,000 names, and a drooping revenue curve...
Cinemactor Rosenbloom, whose battered ring career left him looking like a cross between a hooked rug and a donkey, was recently picked by girls of a college sorority as the last man in the world they'd like to be left alone with on a desert island. That honor moved him to say: "Tings like dat is all advertising. Good for yuh. As for dem college graduates, I know some. Mostly bus boys tryin' to woik deir way up to waiters...
...Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...pictures, Orozco is more poetic and lyric, Siquieros continues to be a great painter in spite of his politics." Cantú would have liked to do frescos, but says he got no commissions from the Mexican Government because he refused to paint Christ with the head of a donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although I am not very clerical," says he, "I do not go so far." Merida, who lives in Mexico City, and Cantú, who plans to return there soon, both hope that Mexico's President Avila Camacho will be partial to non-political Mexican...