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...Vogue and Town & Country He settled in Hollywood, "the way New York artists go to Connecticut. It's a quiet life, very few people." But he seemed to yearn for the tragic actors and the monumental stage sets of Renaissance Europe. He began to produce ever larger, ever emptier pictures of a girl with her back turned (she might have been his own Muse). At last, as if his pictures were decaying with his talent, he gave his canvases a moldy, gnawed-on look by painting cracks and holes in them...
...Broadway's face was fuller, its pockets were emptier. A dozen hits were still riding high, but wartime spending had slumped, and peacetime expenses had soared. To raise the curtain on a show cost just about twice what it had only a few seasons back. The revival of Show Boat, one of the greatest Broadway grossers of all time, wound up last January some...
...tenebrous tones Churchill surveyed the Spartan boundaries of Labor's promised land. "All enterprise, all initiative is baffled and fettered. The queues are longer, the faces are longer, the shelves are barer, the shops are emptier. . . . Whole spheres of beneficial activity are frozen rigid and numb because this Government had to prove their Socialist orthodoxy...
Harvard will be emptier by 1400 men soon after February 1, the College announced yesterday after tabulating answers to the study card poll taken early in December. Fluctuating government releases and uncertainty of draft operation make a definite count impossible, but officials are sure that at least 1000 of the 3,300 now in Cambridge will fail to answer the second semester school-bell...
...half-fed for . . . bug-infested attics is paid to men whose business it is to preach the Gospel"). The Anglicans, he says, have strong support only from the middle class. "The once crowded slum churches in London . . . are now for the most part almost empty. The fashionable churches are emptier." Only 18% of the population attend any church regularly (U.S. estimate...