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...spent 15 years in growing up, 21 years in politics, wars and revolutions, and only about 15 years at art-during which he completed eleven major murals. There were three six-year periods when he didn't paint at all. Russia's famed Film Director Sergei Eisenstein, speaking more frankly then than he could now, once advised Siqueiros to quit his politicking and concentrate on painting. Had he done so, Siqueiros might already have surpassed the reputations of his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Rivera and Orozco. There was no denying that his latest exhibition made their work...
...tightest and most expertly rowed of all six races, Joe Eldredge nosed out a former titlist, Tom Day, who finished second, and Bill Dowd, clerk of course, and Julie Eisenstein, both of whom tied for third, for the senior singles championship. Not more than a length separated all your oarsmen. Eldredge was timed...
Wherry--Burrowes, Clapp, Nilsson, Page. Compromise--Middendorf, Murphy, Preston, Savarit. 155-Pound Singles--Snow, Sprout. Novice Singles--Barroll, Bisbee, Brewer, Queeny. Junior Singles--Berg, Carpenter, Clement, Getchell. Senior Singles--Day, Dowd Eisenstein, Eldridge...
Admirers of Soviet cinematic exports to recently appear in this country will find "Ivan The Terrible" a characteristic product, replete with the usual recurring armies of Russian extras either besieging a Tartar castle with catapults or recovering Stalingrad with bazookas. Sergei Eisenstein, who introduced wartime American audiences to Russian military history with "Alexander Nevsky" and "Suvarov," has again probed into his country's past to come up with "Ivan The Terrible" in the process of fashioning the Duchy of Moscow into all the Russias...
Language, to the credit of Eisenstein, is no barrier for a foreigner's complete understanding of his work, for his camera, combined with the tumultuous score of Sergei Prokofieff, fully expresses the emotional current, and the plot is distinctly visual. Photographic effects, indeed, are the strongest element in the picture, with dramatic composition in brilliant silhouetted contrast present in almost every scene. Artistic technique, in this respect, reaches its best with a show of Ivan hovering over a globe against the white interior of the imperial palace...