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...became first director of Washington's National Gallery, the nation's No. 1 showplace was scheduled to open with a meager ratio of only 30 works to every acre of pink marble halls. But in 18 years of skillful piloting, Director Finley has steered into the National Gallery outstanding private collections owned by such millionaire art lovers as Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and Lessing J. Rosenwald, and has watched the collection swell to more than 1,200 paintings and 326 sculptures. Under Finley the gallery gained a place among the world's first-rank art museums...
Hardly less extraordinary than the service or the church is the man largely responsible for them both, 40-year-old Father Paul Bureth. St. Anne's financial angel and a first-rank showman...
...Barefoot Contessa there are the makings of approximately three first-rank films. Unfortunately, the best two already have been made with more skill and at greater length under the titles All About Eve and The Bad and the Beautiful. What is original in the new picture receives scanty attention because of the time spent on the other two. And it really is a shame that writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz could never quite decide on which story to concentrate because he ends with a second rate product in which the flashes of brilliance seem to shake free in spite...
Mystic of Mainz. The world knows little about Mathias Griinewald, less, perhaps, than it does about any other first-rank master. Only a handful of paintings and a bare 33 drawings have come to light in four centuries, but these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
Luis MIGUEL DOMINGUÍN'S long, sensitive hands have killed more than 2,000 bulls. They first held the cape when he was only five years old, playing with young heifers on the ranch of his father, who was once a bullfighter himself, though not a first-rank one. By the time he was 20, Luis Miguel was second only to the great Manolete...