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...probably weakest at those points where a stab at "social significance" is made. It is strongest where it allows the artistry of the specialists involved in its making to have free rein. It's the sort of thing that generally winds up as an artistic success but a financial flop. But when it's as well done as "How Green," the ticket-buying public goes...
...News. She drew the program cover for the 1939 Rose Bowl game, once pressagented a Stanford football player whom she misjudged to be a sure screen bet. In August 1940, driving 600 miles a day, Jeane went to Philadelphia for a cartoonist's job on the Bulletin. A flop on the feature page (she hated to draw women's styles especially), she got along fine as sports cartoonist, soon added a column of writing. On the sly she has been writing a novel; she says "I can't write a straight line any more than...
...drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
...brain child of Virginia's wing-collared, flop-eared Howard Worth Smith would 1) freeze the present situation in regard to the closed shop; 2) require long cooling-off periods in labor disputes; 3) require a majority vote of the workers in a Government-held election in order to make a strike legal; 4) strip "illegal" strikers of the protection of labor laws; 5) forbid picketing of plants by others than their own workers. The bill would also bar from union office Bundists, Communists and felons, would require unions to file complete, honest and detailed organizational and financial reports...
...first National Week, last year, was notable for esthetic whoops & hollers, but its main purpose (selling art) was a flop (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). This year President Roosevelt gave Art Week a new national director, white-haired, diplomatic Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. and No. 1 salesman of the U.S. business world. Long a private collector who specializes in paintings by oldtime U.S. artists like Winslow Homer and George Inness, Thomas J. Watson has spent the past four years talking art-mindedness to U.S. business, has had his own International Business Machines Corp...