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...crowd which jammed the sedate portals of Chicago's Art Institute one evening last week caused the Chicago Daily News to headline: HELP! POLICE! ART EXHIBITION CALLS OUT COPS ! The headline was strictly factual: firemen as well as police were summoned to handle the overflow throng. What 6,500 art-lovers had come to see was the first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of the work of a 31-years-dead Mexican who has been called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican...
...Phil Charig; produced by Dave Wolper) has a number of virtues and two faults-its music and its book. Since the two mean hardly less to musicomedy than mountains and lakes mean to Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls...
Gone to Earth. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Jeniel Reesse gossiped over her back fence with three neighbors, suddenly dis appeared. Firemen came and extricated her from a forgotten excavation twelve feet deep. Mrs. Reesse's weight...
Dutifully a policeman came, found No. 21's door locked, the chimney still belching. Dutifully he summoned firemen. Together they broke into the house and into a stench so sickening that they vomited...
Inferno. In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. S. S. Hill heard strange noises under the front porch of his new house, called firemen to investigate. From a 20-ft. dry cistern were lifted (all alive) a chow, a Boston bulldog, a white Angora...