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...critics who had begun to fear that Rivera was now painting more out of habit than conviction, there were some reassuring touches. His Little Soviet Girl (see cut), a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Muscovite, clutching her school case in the cold, was a real charmer. The two major oils in the show, People's Testimony and Defile, painted from the window of Rivera's room in Moscow's National Hotel and both depicting scenes in Red Square, caught the bleakness of Moscow's winter and the immensity of the square with some of his old dash...
...NORMA FLAXEN New York City...
...pair develops a quick sense of mission-to unite Britain. Novelist Treece supplies Artos with two Guineveres to Malory's one (but uses the Welsh, Gwenhwyfar). The first Gwenhwyfar is a flaxen haired homebody, his half sister as well as mother of his child. The second is a kind of dusky call girl from Byzantium, a Gwenhwyfar from home. Artos makes her amorous acquaintance in a shivery session atop one of the ancient slabs at Stonehenge. He takes her to wife, but inevitably the day comes when the Count of Britain must off to the wars to fight...
English studies are generally fairly adult in dealing with religion, which is practically a dirty word in squeamish Hollywood. Too often protectors of American faith are protrayed as grinning flaxen-haired Catholic priests, who just love baseball, or late, great, Senate chaplains, who equally love their Georgia peaches. Evidently, director Charles Frend has a healthy respect for accuracy when he gives us the inside line on the Church of England...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, the stage was set for one of the year's most interesting musical evenings. The program booklets pictured the famous, flaxen froth of hair and the powerful profile of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The text of the work to be performed was taken from low and lofty verses, written by 13th century wandering scholars, vagabond poets and runaway monks, collected under the title, Carmina Burana.* The music was by Carl Orff, considered by Germans to be their most important living composer. U.S. conductors also consider him important: they scheduled no less than...