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...Stuart Davis, 61, started as a pupil of Robert Henri, founder of the famed "Ashcan School." While obeying Henri's injunction to go out and paint what he saw on the streets, Davis found that his eye was particularly taken by the hard, jazzy, garish, kaleidoscopic aspects of city life. The Armory Show of 1913, in which modern European art first burst upon America, introduced Davis to abstractionism, and in 1927 he clamped onto it for good. He nailed an eggbeater, a rubber glove and an electric fan to a table and painted them over and over. "Through this...
...shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed by all the garish publicity, the bereaved husband fulfilled his engagement there, dedicated Come Rain or Come Shine "to my wife, Rita," feelingly crooned Love Me or Leave Me to thunderous applause...
...Night of the Hunter (Paul Gregory; United Artists). Davis Grubb's tense 1954 novel about an itinerant psychopathic preacher is a natural for cinemelo-drama. Directed by Actor Charles Laughton, it is a garish, unbelievable but fairly exciting nightmare...
Moving northward from Manhattan's Times Square through the garish canyon of Seventh Avenue, the traveler finds a varied evening cacophony. Bus engines whine. Subway trains roar through sidewalk gratings. On a corner a Salvation Army band pleads Onward! Christian Soldiers. Suddenly, through an open door, comes a shattering crash and a high-pitched wail, and a competing hymn bounces through the tortured air: When the Saints Go Marching...
...Monsieur and Madame Poissonard are a modest little Parisian couple who keep a modest little dairy shop called An Bon Beurre. In 1950 the Poissonards have 47 million francs, a garish apartment, a country estate, and a son-in-law who is a member of parliament. The shortest distance between these two points is crooked-and savagely funny. French Satirist Jean (A Dog's Head) Dutourd has lampooned not only war profiteers but France itself, a country which has earned more justly than England, the reputation of being "a nation of shopkeepers...