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Message in Oils. Older Artist (47) Siqueiros' paintings would have seemed "prominent" wherever they hung. Their blood-rich colors, cast-iron forms and gravel textures made them stand out as far as the smearing fist in his Self Portrait (see cut). Siqueiros' second entry was relatively calm-a green and gold description of three muscular, writhing gourds-but it was not quite so innocuous as it looked. In Spanish, calabazas (gourds) is a vulgar insult when spoken without a smile. Explained Siqueiros: the three calabazas stand for the three Government schools in charge of the competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexican Volcano | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolored escape into the Old West with romance, fist fights, Indians and Hoagy Carmichael ballads (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...many Britons were far from reconciled to the dull programming and the monopoly of the state-owned radio network (TIME, July 15). Last week, they had aid and comfort from an unexpected quarter. A wartime (1938-42) director-general of BBC, one-armed Sir Frederick Ogilvie, shook his fist at his old employer in a London Picture Post article. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Voice of Jacob | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolored escape into the Old West-with romance, fist fights, Indians and Hoagy Carmichael ballads (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls, the superb outdoor scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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