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...gallery at all, these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...
...thing one has grown to expect of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Mrs. Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London, Actor Bruce first charmed U. S. audiences this season in Lean Harvest...
Company's Coming! This very unfunny comedy has as engaging a comedienne (Frieda Inescort, late of Napi), as droll a farceur (Lynne Overman of Just Married) and as stupid a script as has been professionally presented for a long time. Ridden to death is the story of a poor young tennis player (Mr. Overman), who must pawn a cup he has not quite won for keeps. Included in the complications are a fake holdup, a real holdup, beer, neighbors, a bull pup, a baby. Also joining in the ruckus is a visitor from Atlanta whose attempt at the dialect...
...more passionate than the common run of men, but less passionate." This was the key to all his writing, to his whole life. Murry intimates that Bertha Coutts. one of the least lovely characters in Lady Chatterlcy's Lover, was really Lawrence's own wife, Frieda von Richthofen, whom Lawrence at times hated but could not do without. Murry thinks Lawrence's horror of the War, his sense of persecution and consequent hegira to Italy, Australia, Mexico, the U. S.. his reiterated vituperation against all the Christian virtues, were really only reactions of impotence...
...notions store, prevail upon him to double for the Corsican. Mr. Truex's first job is to tell a comely actress (Peggy Shannon) that he no longer loves her. But although she sees through the impersonation, she becomes enamored of the substitute, makes him spend the night. Josephine (Frieda Inescort) also falls under his spell. When Mr. Truex finally returns to the mercantile business, he is assured of the patronage of the whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked for pulchritude, the ladies...