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Asked what he thought of the Lampoon as a publication, Ibis sighed and brought froth an image: "It's like chamber music with a bawdy brass chair interrupting all the time." But his distaste was tinged with a shade of admiration...
...House Un-American Activities Committee's 1951-52 hearings on Reds in Hollywood had trouble finding evidence of Communist propagandizing by film, but they did whip up a well-publicized froth of big & little Hollywood names. Last week the names made news again...
Surrealist Magritte is still up to his old tricks. "I'm always looking for a feeling of luxury, of uselessness," he says, and his newest pictures are plainly froth: light, half-joking canvases whose titles are meant to titillate, not explain. He showed a slim grand piano encircled with a wedding ring, called it The Happy Hand. His Art of Conversation has two graceful swans paddling neck to neck about a blue lake. His Hesitation Waltz is a picture of two oranges decked out in masks, eying each other warily. One of the favorites: Night at Pisa, which shows...
...salon crowd. When he tells one over-amorous admirer that the atrocity tales were so much party propwash and that he himself was only a stupid bungler in Spain, the lady denounces him to the other pinkos as a low cynic. Hardcaster is only too glad to leave the froth front and take charge of the gunrunning scheme. How the Reds double-cross Hardcaster and decoy the innocent Stamps to their deaths in Spain makes for a mystery-thriller finish to Author Lewis' masterly expose of the fashionable leftism...
...Times. Said Critic Robert Sylvester of the gum-chewing Daily News: "I liked that thing back in 1934 and I liked it even better last night." So last week, after 18 years, the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, had critics and audiences in a froth again...